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2 Aug 2024 22:18:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improved Perlin noise  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 6 Jul 2004 07:24:48
Message: <40ea8c00$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
...
> There are two critical issues about the noise generator: 1) possible 
> regularities.  This does not only mean regular structures in the noise 
> pattern like in current ng3 but also periodicity and degeneration of the 
> function in 'far areas'. This all can be really tricky to test of 
> course.

You can give the periodic interval as an argument to the
macro. This makes it easy to study the periodicity when
the interval is set small.

Do you know where the 'far areas' are and how the functions
typically degenerates ?


 > 2) performance.  This is quite impossible to conclude from an
> SDL version.

Why is that ?

The macro can produce noise functions that behave simlar
to f_noise3d()


-- 
Tor Olav
http://subcube.net
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