day 5 - Anyone got Perlin Noise?

chr15m on 2006/09/08 01:56 of Team_Cloudy

Wow, day 5 went really badly. I spent the day paralysed by the looming deadline, trying to code a part of my program that I thought would be fast and easy to code but has turned out to be difficult; random functions. Perlin noise is really complicated for a stressed out brain! If anyone has a Perlin noise implementation in Python I would really appreciate knowing about it!

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Ron on 2006/09/08 15:58:

Erm, why don't you use the internal randoms? Is this Perlin-noise that much important for gameplay? Like:

import random
random.gauss(main, deviance)
random.randrange(a,b)

Cheers!

alecu on 2006/09/08 16:27:

"""Perlin noise is a procedural texture desgined by Ken Perlin. It's (pseudo)random, it doesn't repeat. It's band-limited, so the texture has a sort of uniform "roughness", and there are no large-scale features when you look at it from afar. So it's pretty much the happenin' thing to use when you have stuff you don't want to look flat."""
http://twistedmatrix.com/users/acapnotic/wares/code/perlin/

Ron on 2006/09/08 19:13:

Cool, thank you for the info! :)

alecu on 2006/09/09 04:15:

Obviously there's some python code there, I hope it's useful.

Good luck!
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alecu