Development Journal - June 9, 2013 news - War of the Voxels

As I stated in last weeks journal, War of the Voxels is undergoing a revamp.
After some research, I decided to go with Dual Contouring, a technique that is generally associated with this wonderful voxel engine:

Here's a screenshot of what I've accomplished so far:

I know what you're thinking:

But allow me to explain what it is!
What you see in the picture is a sphere, created by using an algorithm I mentioned above called Dual Contouring. What Dual Contouring let's me do is create that spherical mesh from a 3D grid of cubes. Basically, I've applied a smoothing algorithm to the blocks to create that sphere. You may, however, be thinking:

But remember, this is a close up shot, and the sphere is only composed of ~3x3x3=27 cubes. To make it look more spherical, all that needs to be done is to bump up the "resolution" (how many cubes make up the sphere).

However, I will admit that it looks...peculiar.
The reason why it's so "colorful" is because I haven't added lighting yet, and so to better see the shape of the object, I generated a random color for each vertex of the sphere. You may also notice the z-fighting in the screenshot; this is because Dual Contouring often produces polygons that intersect.

Wireframe view: