How to Use voxel in a Sentence

voxel

noun
  • Instead of pure pixels, think of them with volume—height, length and depth—turning them into voxels.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2017
  • More than 100 layers of voxels can be stored on a sheet of glass 2 millimeters thick.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Lastly, the system uses machine learning to read the voxels back.
    — New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Femtosecond laser pulses can write data into glass in the form of tiny 3D voxels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Both of these kinds of voxels modify the speed at which light travels through the glass, which is based off a factor called the refractive index.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • As voxels are added, the tiny robots adjust their positioning relative to the structures.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The system also tracks the user’s hand motion and touch, allowing users to manipulate the voxels in space.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2015
  • To compensate, the new technique uses a single pulse to solidify each voxel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Phase voxels also require simpler writing and reading hardware.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Taking the voxel approach to the art was the right choice here, considering the new broader functionality.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Three-dimensional images are measured in voxels, a bit like computer images that are measured in pixels.
    — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Robots assemble and reassemble the building blocks, or voxels, based on a digital blueprint.
    — Alex Palmer, Smithsonian, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Coding and analyzing the data in each voxel helped researchers visualize which regions of the brain process certain kinds of words.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In being so inviting, Minecraft Dungeons might suggest a possible future for Minecraft and its vast voxel worlds.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 29 May 2020
  • This enables precise fabrication of items with voxels—the 3D equivalent of pixels—only a few dozen nanometers in size.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Two-photon lithography enables the fabrication of items with voxels—the 3D equivalent of pixels—only a few dozen nanometers in size.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
  • To overcome this challenge, the scientists developed two different types of voxels, called phase voxels and birefringent voxels, which each only required a single laser pulse to write.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The researchers focused a laser beam on a point within glass to modify its optical properties and encode data as voxels, the 3D equivalent of pixels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Machine learning models used during reading help account for the effects of random errors and optical interference between voxels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • However, these voxels required high-purity silica glasses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • In comparison, phase voxels can potentially be written in any durable transparent material, such as borosilicate glass, which is widely available in cookware.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The improvements allow an fMRI to image voxels—the 3D equivalent of pixels—that are less than half a millimeter on each side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The development of a technique called multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) has catalysed this revolution.
    — Helen Shen, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2018
  • With birefringent voxels, the scientists could achieve significantly better data density, write throughput, and energy efficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Reconstructing the slices produced more than 700 million 3-D cells, called voxels, that were evaluated and programmatically filtered, based on density, to isolate the bones and lungs.
    — Hang Do Thi Duc, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • This was made possible thanks to a new method of 'marking' the glass to store information – going from birefringent voxels that require a two-step process to create microscopic needle-like structures in the glass, to phase voxels that allow for faster reading and writing with simpler hardware.
    — New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Mirrors focus the beam into position, arranging each individual voxel (the term for 3-D pixels) at specific lateral (X,Y) and axial (Z) points.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015

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