Pretty nifty alternative to ray-tracing:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vox ... ,2423.html
Seeing Carmack explore this almost a decade ago is even more interesting:
http://www.firingsquad.com/features/carmack/default.asp
EDIT:
In relation, a link to Ken Silverman's original Voxlap engine which is now open source and has a demo:
http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap/voxlap03.htm
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