How to Use voxel in a Sentence
voxel
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More than 100 layers of voxels can be stored on a sheet of glass 2 millimeters thick.
—Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Nov. 2019
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Here's what's going on: As the pixels change color, a small portion of each voxel is altered.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020
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Instead of pure pixels, think of them with volume—height, length and depth—turning them into voxels.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2017
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The medium in question is a block of high-purity glass, which has voxels etched into it with femtosecond lasers.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2019
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In being so inviting, Minecraft Dungeons might suggest a possible future for Minecraft and its vast voxel worlds.
—Julie Muncy, Wired, 29 May 2020
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Taking the voxel approach to the art was the right choice here, considering the new broader functionality.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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The scientists identified a cluster of 14 voxels (3D pixels) in this region of the dogs’ left hemispheres, but didn’t find any such clusters in the right, and none in any part of the dogs’ brains in response to the neutral stimulus.
—Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
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As voxels are added, the tiny robots adjust their positioning relative to the structures.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2019
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Norman’s research group has used fMRI technology to find voxel patterns in the cortex that are reflected in the hippocampus.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
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Robots assemble and reassemble the building blocks, or voxels, based on a digital blueprint.
—Alex Palmer, Smithsonian, 14 Oct. 2017
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Three-dimensional images are measured in voxels, a bit like computer images that are measured in pixels.
—Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
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Everything that was previously pre-rendered now plays out from your first-person perspective, and the results benefit hugely from the remastered game's voxel-like aesthetic and haunting light modeling.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2022
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The development of a technique called multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) has catalysed this revolution.
—Helen Shen, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2018
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