This software is a C++ library that generates coherent noise and is open-source and portable.
If you're a graphics programmer looking to generate natural-looking textures or planetary terrain, you may want to check out libnoise, a general-purpose, portable C++ library. Specifically, this library can generate coherent noise, or smoothly-changing noise, including Perlin noise, ridged multifractal noise, and other forms of coherent-noise.
One of the most notable aspects of libnoise is its noise modules, which encapsulate its coherent-noise generators. There are various types of these modules, some of which can modify or combine other noise modules in various ways, allowing for very complex coherent noise generation.
To get a better sense of what libnoise is capable of, one can look at some examples. The mountain scene, for instance, was rendered in Terragen using a terrain file created by libnoise. Furthermore, the library has been known to compile using various compilers on different platforms, including Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, gcc 3.3.4 on Gentoo Linux 10.0 (x86), and gcc 3.x.x on FreeBSD 6 (64-bit SPARC).
One of the most notable aspects of libnoise is its noise modules, which encapsulate its coherent-noise generators. There are various types of these modules, some of which can modify or combine other noise modules in various ways, allowing for very complex coherent noise generation.
To get a better sense of what libnoise is capable of, one can look at some examples. The mountain scene, for instance, was rendered in Terragen using a terrain file created by libnoise. Furthermore, the library has been known to compile using various compilers on different platforms, including Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, gcc 3.3.4 on Gentoo Linux 10.0 (x86), and gcc 3.x.x on FreeBSD 6 (64-bit SPARC).
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