On: The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)

[Maxatar]

Most voxel engines end up rendering triangles. The voxels are used to represent the world to allow for cool physics, in particular destruction.

[HelloNurse → Maxatar]

Unlike general meshes, the low-level triangles used to represent voxel surfaces can be easily computed in a shader rather than stored explicitly, and even per-voxel data can sometimes be recomputed on the fly because of procedural generation.