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Why do people call a textured 3D cube on a grid a voxel (Minecraft), but do not call a textured 2D tile on a grid a pixel?

pixel was already used so they call it texel

A texel is a element of a texture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel_(graphics)

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