In 2022, I introduce you to James Brown, a graphics engineer at Weta Studios whose hobby is building amazing displays. Now, he’s built a crystal ball filled with shimmering, swirling volumes of light—and, of course, he’s playing with it doom on top of it.
but not just any doom. With Voxel Doom, every point of the game’s graphics is located in 3D space, just like the points of the volumetric display he created.
As he explains on YouTube, the physical illusion is fairly simple: “It’s like a holographic fan, but instead of rotating 1D strips to generate a 2D image, it rotates 2D panels to generate a 3D image.” In his photo of Mastodon above, he breaks it down further with visual aids:
Brown has been working on this problem for more than a year: if I remember correctly, he introduced the project in August 2023, channeling his inner Dr. Brown and saying: “If my calculations are correct, when This one you’re going to see some serious shit about when the baby gets to 300rpm but he later figured out that in order to get a smooth image it needed to spin a little faster especially when he was trying to shoot so stay away from that. finger.
You can track his progress on his Mastodon, but he doesn’t only Play doom– For example, you can find volumetric moon landers, skulls, and dinosaur heads. He also just posted this to his YouTube:
GIF by Sean Hollister / The Verge; video by James Brown
yes they can play doom.
