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psrdnoise

Tiling simplex flow noise in 2-D and 3-D compatible with GLSL 1.20 (WebGL 1.0) and above.

A WGSL port is in the "src" directory with the GLSL versions, and it seems to be working (yields the same results as the corresponding GLSL functions), but I have only done a minimal amount of testing. If you find bugs, please report them in the "Issues" section.

A variant of 2-D noise which is compatible with "mediump" 16-bit float precision has been added to the repository. (A 3-D version is more tricky. No promises yet.) As with the WGSL port, bug reports and general feedback on the code is appreciated.

A scientific article on this is published in Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, JCGT. Code is in the src/ folder, and there are some live WebGL examples and a tutorial on how to use these functions on the accompanying Github Pages site.

Ports to HLSL are in the src/hlsl directory. These were made by @domportera, I am not fluent in HLSL myself.

A Unity shader project using another HLSL port of these functions is available from @chmodseven: https://github.com/chmodseven/psrdnoise

The infamous troll-owned patent on Simplex Noise finally expired in January 2022, but none of these functions implement any of the patented methods. That patent was arguably never valid in the first place, because I would argue that its primary claim is demonstrably false. In any case, it's a moot point now.

LICENSE

The entire content of the docs/ folder is in the public domain, with the exception of GLSL shader code that comes with an MIT license as specified in the code comments.

All GLSL code in this repository is published under the permissive MIT license:

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