[Fluxus] commits

Dave Griffiths dave at pawfal.org
Thu Dec 11 02:35:17 PST 2008


>> So IIRC simplex noise has less of the artifacts of perlin noise (which
>> looks a bit blocky due to the regular sampling) but simplex noise is a
>> bit
>> slower...
> do you mean perlin noise is slower? i know the noise functions are not
> in ideal shape at the moment. it was just a quick hack to get things
> going.  perlin noise calculation includes octaves and falloff, while
> simplex noise is just one octave and you have to add the octaves
> together by hand if you want more detail.

No - they seem pretty fast to me as they are! I just meant in general - I
thought the difference between simplex/perlin was a quality/speed
tradeoff.

cheers,

dave




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