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0 pointsrpdillon7y ago0 comments

The tag line is on the site says:

> A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.

Is the sentence in some way more clear with the modifier '8-bit'? What's being clarified?

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That the voxels are each a solid color and are expected to be displayed at between 1x1 and 4x4 screen pixels per voxel. Definitely not minecraft-style, for example.

gbear6057y ago

That people are looking for “8-bit.” For instance, someone might google “8 bit editor.”

PavlovsCat7y ago

Someone might also google "audio editor", so why not also call it an audio editor to be on the safe side?

nomel7y ago

8-bit style voxel art can easily be made with this. In fact, that's the intended use case.

This would be a very poor tool for creating audio, and anyone looking for an audio tool would notice this immediately.

"8-bit voxel" is completely understood to the target audience. Anything involving audio would not.

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