HYPERVOXEL EXPERIMENTATIONS 2001, 2002 Lightwave 7.0's volumetrics are quite astounding to play with. I usually use them for basic particle effects, but lately I have been using them for clouds and pollen (See the Glider Project ) in my 3D work. Because Lightwave scenes are open source, and editable with a text editor outside the program, they allow for many tweaks that one wouldn't think of otherwise. Hence, it is very easy to create effects that look like popcorn, metal, or even little explosions of dirt. Most of these stills are of one single Voxel (3D Pixel, essentially), with various shaders applied accordingly. When pairs of voxels are combined, or set in motion, a multitude of strange things can happen. These are some experiments and explorations with this technology.