noiselib

noiselib - 1.4.0

Chandler Armstrong (omnirizon)

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Description

noiselib provides noise generators and manipulators. noiselib is modeled after libnoise, the C++ coherent noise library. noise generators are wrapped in 'modules' that manipulate, modify, filter, and combine noise generators. Each module expects and returns noise; thus modules can be stacked to create complex noise output.

Changes

1.4.0
* The noise modification callback functions are now passed as handles to those functions, rather than a string. This permits more user freedom in supplying their own callbacks.
* Corrected a mistake in the Rescale module. Thanks to bugmenot for catching this.

2.0.0
* The noise modification callback functions are now passed as handles to those functions, rather than a string. This permits more user freedom in supplying their own callbacks.
* Corrected a mistake in the Rescale module. Thanks to bugmenot for catching this.
* The fractal Brownian motion function is now implemented in C. This does not change the interface at all.

I will shortly release a minor update that adds docstrings, a windows binary, and a short reference document. Please be patient!

NOTE: a special release is not made here for the 2.*.* versions. If you are interested in them, simply find them on the host site, linked below.

Links

Home Page: http://code.google.com/p/noiselib/
Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/noiselib/files/

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Releases

noiselib - 1.5.0 - Jul 27, 2011
noiselib - 1.4.0 - Jun 8, 2011

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May 28, 2011 3:37pm - Chandler Armstrong - nickname: (omnirizon)
the interface will only change in one place. the 'f' parameter, a callback function for the fBm procedure to modify per-octave noise, will change to accept the function object rather than a string. this is so users can make their own callback functions. I have finally gotten everything to compile with no errors. I may test tonight and then release if all goes well.
May 24, 2011 8:05pm - Bugme Not - nickname: (bugmenot) - 5/5
Ooh, I'd really like to see that pre-compiled installer; I'm trying to share my game with my friend right now and he has to install mingw32 and everything. Will the python interface be at all different for the new fBm? I just hope that nothing is broken.
May 23, 2011 1:20pm - Chandler Armstrong - nickname: (omnirizon)
thanks for the catch on the mistake, bugme not! I'm updating this package to implement the fBm in C. I'll fix the mistake you found, and add a comment to the scale function, if its logic is unclear. You basically stated why the scale function looks the way it does; I wanted a particular signature. A saner way of implementing the function may exist; I'll look into it. The update will be released today or tomorrow. I'll distribute it with an actual installer, code compiled and all.
May 22, 2011 4:44pm - Bugme Not - nickname: (bugmenot)
The code is completely undocumented; the most important thing I figured out is: The scale() function is actually a line in y=mx+b form, equivalent to the line between the two given points. So give RescaleNoise a line f and it'll transform all of the noise points x (in range -1 to 1) to new noise points f(x) in the range f(-1) to f(1). Why is the line given as two points instead of as a y-intercept and a slope? Because of the convenience of this: source = RescaleNoise((-1, 1), (0, 1), source) means that noise between -1 and 1 is mapped to noise between 0 and 1, which can be used by RGBLerpNoise
May 22, 2011 3:44pm - Bugme Not - nickname: (bugmenot) - 3/5
In your AbsNoise function, you have: def __call__(self, coords): source = self.source return abs(noise(coords)) But there is no `noise' in scope. Do you mean: def __call__(self, coords): source = self.source return abs(source(coords))