Key concepts

Terms

Voxel
noun

(In computer-based modeling or graphic simulation) an array of elements of volume that constitute a notional three-dimensional space, which a representation of a three-dimensional object is divided. The word voxel originated by analogy with the word “pixel”, with vo representing “volume"and el representing “element”.

Unit Cell
noun

(In crystallography) the smallest group of atoms of a substance that has the overall symmetry of a crystal of that substance, and from which the entire lattice can be built up by repetition in three dimensions.

Lattice
noun

(In material science) a regular repeated three-dimensional arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a metal or other crystalline solid.

Anatomy of a lattice structure

Unit cells

Voxels

Skin