noise

noise

noise implements several coherent noise generation functions for the GLSL. Each type of noise is implemented as a glls shader. While it is not necessary to use glls in your application, it is recommended since it makes things much easier. It is also entirely possible to use this library to create noise for an application that doesn’t otherwise use OpenGL. In this case, noise can be generated (very quickly!) on the GPU and then saved as a texture for access by the CPU. See the Examples section for an example of this.

noise is indebted to Stefan Gustavson and Ashima Arts who created the highly optimized shaders that this library re-implements. You can see a description of these shaders in their own words.

Requirements

glls

Documentation

The following sections describe the shaders that noise exports and the symbols that they, in turn, export.

[constant] simplex-noise-2d

Exports

   (snoise (POSITION #:vec2)) -> #:float

Given a 2D position, return the simplex noise value at that point.

   (fractal-snoise (POSITION #:vec2) (OCTAVES #:int) (FREQUENCY #:float) 
                   (AMPLITUDE #:float) (PERSISTENCE #:float) (LACUNARITY #:float) 
        -> #:float

Given a 2D position, return the fractal simplex noise value at that point. OCTAVES is the number of octaves of noise to sample, FREQUENCY is the frequency of the first octave, AMPLITUDE is the amplitude of the first octave, PERSISTENCE is the amount by which the frequency is scaled over each octave, LACUNARITY is the amount by which the amplitude is scaled over each octave.

[constant] simplex-noise-3d

Exports

   (snoise (POSITION #:vec3)) -> #:float

Given a 3D position, return the simplex noise value at that point.

   (fractal-snoise (POSITION #:vec3) (OCTAVES #:int) (FREQUENCY #:float) 
                    (AMPLITUDE #:float) (PERSISTENCE #:float) (LACUNARITY #:float) 
        -> #:float

Given a 3D position, return the fractal simplex noise value at that point. OCTAVES is the number of octaves of noise to sample, FREQUENCY is the frequency of the first octave, AMPLITUDE is the amplitude of the first octave, PERSISTENCE is the amount by which the frequency is scaled over each octave, LACUNARITY is the amount by which the amplitude is scaled over each octave

[constant] simplex-noise-4d

Exports

   (snoise (POSITION #:vec4)) -> #:float

Given a 4D position, return the simplex noise value at that point.

   (fractal-snoise (POSITION #:vec4) (OCTAVES #:int) (FREQUENCY #:float) 
                   (AMPLITUDE #:float) (PERSISTENCE #:float) (LACUNARITY #:float) 
        -> #:float

Given a 4D position, return the fractal simplex noise value at that point. OCTAVES is the number of octaves of noise to sample, FREQUENCY is the frequency of the first octave, AMPLITUDE is the amplitude of the first octave, PERSISTENCE is the amount by which the frequency is scaled over each octave, LACUNARITY is the amount by which the amplitude is scaled over each octave

[constant] cell-noise-2d

Exports

   jitter -> #:float

A variable that sets the amount of possible “jitter” for each feature point. Should be a value between 0.0 and 1.0, with 0.0 creating a regular grid of points and 1.0 creating the greatest randomness. If there are problems with discontinuities, decrease the jitter. Defaults to 0.9.

   (cell-noise (POSITION #:vec2)) -> #:float

Given a 2D position, return the distance to the nearest feature point. This is fast, but lower-quality than cell-noise2

   (cell-noise2 (POSITION #:vec2)) -> #:vec2

Given a 2D position, return the a vector containing the distance to the nearest feature point and second nearest feature point ((F1 F2)).

[constant] cell-noise-3d

Exports

   jitter -> #:float

   (cell-noise (POSITION #:vec3)) -> #:float

Given a 3D position, return the distance to the nearest feature point. This is fast, but lower-quality than cell-noise2

   (cell-noise2 (POSITION #:vec3)) -> #:vec2

Given a 3D position, return the a vector containing the distance to the nearest feature point and second nearest feature point ((F1 F2)).

[constant] flow-nosie-2d

Exports

   isotropic -> #:bool

A variable that controls whether the noise created is faster but less isotropic (set to #f) or slower but more isotropic (set to #t). Defaults to #f.

   (flow-noise (POSITION (in #:vec2)) (ROTATION (in #:float)) (GRADIENT (out #:vec2))
     -> #:float

Given a 2D position and rotation, returns the value of the flow-noise at that point as well as the gradient (via GRADIENT).

Shader source

[string] simplex-noise-2d-source
[string] simplex-noise-3d-source
[string] simplex-noise-4d-source
[string] cell-noise-2d-source
[string] cell-noise-3d-source
[string] flow-noise-2d-source

The source for each shader is provided in these strings, in the case that the user does not want to directly use glls.

Examples

An example of the use of each type of noise can be seen in the examples directory. These examples rely on epoxy, gl-math, gl-utils, and glfw3. They can either be run directly with csi or, since they use glls-render, they can be compiled by linking with libepoxy (e.g. csc -L -lepoxy 2d-simplex.scm).

It is important to note how the noise shaders are being imported in these examples: through glls’ use keyword. This makes it so that the prototypes from the noise shaders are automatically added to the examples’ fragment shaders.

The render-to-texture example provides an additional example to illustrate how noise can be captured to a texture via a framebuffer. With the noise in a texture, it can then be retrieved to RAM if access to the noise from the CPU is desired.

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