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Smooth Minecraft terrain rendering
Hopfer, Eduard ; Iser, Tomáš (advisor) ; Gouder, Darryl (referee)
Interesting terrain is the backbone of any virtual world. To make features like caves, overhangs, and arches possible, we need to capture the internal structure of the terrain. In other words, we need a volumetric terrain model. Minecraft is known for its rich, procedurally generated worlds. Internally, these worlds use a volumetric representation - a 3D grid of voxels. While these blocky worlds look impressive already, continuous terrain is often more desirable. The goal of this thesis is to create a tool that can visualize Minecraft worlds as smooth surfaces. We explore ways of using Minecraft as a source of volumetric terrain data. The smooth scene is created by extracting a field function and polygonizing the implicit surface it defines. The user can adjust the appearance of the smooth scene through several parameters. The application also supports the exploration of the infinite Minecraft worlds in real-time. 1

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