The Era of the Voxel Map Has Arrived
It seems astonishing to me now that only a fortnight has passed since I climbed to the roof of Maps Mania Tower and proclaimed to the world that the Age of the Pixel Map had begun. And yet here I stand before you today, bearing the sad news of its demise and announcing, with no little ceremony, that The Era of the Voxel Map Has Arrived . Two weeks ago, I observed that "One notable limitation shared by most of these pixelated maps is their single, fixed perspective." My proposed solution was to create a pixel map offering four distinct viewpoints: North, South, East and West. But I should have known that this limitation would ultimately prove to be the pixel map's fatal flaw. A pixel represents a two-dimensional square on a flat image. It was therefore perhaps inevitable that it would eventually fall to a successor born into a world of depth and volume. A voxel is essentially a pixel in three dimensions: a tiny cube occupying space rather than a square on a flat surface....
