Procedural noise generators

WebGL Noise is a library of shader routines designed for procedural graphics generation within the browser. It provides a collection of mathematical functions that allow developers to calculate noise patterns directly on the graphics processing unit, eliminating the need for external image assets or pre-computed data textures. The library focuses on the implementation of standard noise algorithms, including simplex, classic, cellular, and periodic patterns. By executing these calculations as stateless functions within the shader pipeline, the project enables the creation of dynamic, evolving

Simplex-noise.js is a mathematical noise generator and graphics library implemented in TypeScript. It computes smooth pseudo-random values across two, three, and four dimensions, producing organic patterns and spatial effects without relying on static image assets. The library operates through a stateless mathematical engine that uses precomputed coordinate lookup tables and typed array buffers to manage numeric data. It supports deterministic seed injection, accepting custom pseudo-random number generator functions to initialize permutation tables with reproducible values for repeatable outp

Note that newer, faster and more versatile versions of 2-D and 3-D simplex noise were published in 2022. They can be found on https://github.com/stegu/psrdnoise/. This repository is still relevant, though, because it has 4-D noise, classic Perlin noise and Worley noise, neither of which are in…

This project is a procedural content generation framework and three-dimensional mesh generation library designed for the Unity game engine. It provides a system for automating the creation of complex landscapes and natural environments by programmatically constructing geometric terrain surfaces and heightmaps. The generator utilizes layered noise functions to calculate elevation values, which are then translated into terrain geometry. To maintain performance during real-time rendering, the system employs chunk-based mesh generation and dynamic level-of-detail management, which adjusts geometr

Numba is a just-in-time compiler that translates high-level Python functions into optimized machine code at runtime. By leveraging the LLVM compiler infrastructure, it provides a framework for accelerating numerical data processing and mathematical computations, enabling performance levels comparable to statically compiled languages. The project distinguishes itself through its ability to perform type-inference-based specialization, which generates machine instructions tailored to the specific data types used during execution. It employs a lazy compilation pipeline that defers translation unt

CuPy is a CUDA array computing library that implements a NumPy-compatible interface for executing array operations and numerical computing on NVIDIA GPUs. It serves as a GPU-accelerated numerical library and a CUDA-based SciPy implementation, offloading heavy calculations to graphics hardware to increase processing speed for scientific and engineering workloads. The library enables multi-framework tensor exchange, allowing data buffers to be shared between different deep learning frameworks using standardized memory layouts to avoid memory copies. It also supports custom GPU kernel integratio

Open3D is a 3D data processing library, visualization engine, and machine learning library. It provides a framework for manipulating point clouds and meshes through specialized algorithms designed for 3D data science workflows. The project includes a toolkit for 3D scene reconstruction to generate spatial models and align surfaces from raw data. It also functions as a GPU accelerated framework that offloads intensive spatial computations to the graphics processor to increase processing speed. The library covers a broad range of capabilities including physically based light simulations for vi

The Book of Shaders is an interactive educational guide and curriculum for learning GLSL fragment shader programming to create procedural graphics and visual effects. It provides a structured learning path and a categorized reference guide for data types, built-in functions, and mathematical operations used in shader development. The project features a web-based shader sandbox and interactive editor that allows for real-time iteration and visualization of GLSL code. Users can experiment with procedural art and share their results via unique URLs. The curriculum covers a wide range of graphic

Bend is a high-level parallel programming language and compiler designed to execute code across multi-core CPUs and GPUs automatically. By translating functional source code into a graph-based intermediate representation, it enables massive parallel execution without requiring manual management of threads, locks, or atomic operations. The runtime operates as an interaction net engine, where computations are represented as networks of nodes that reduce through local rewriting rules. This model utilizes a work-stealing scheduler to distribute tasks across thousands of hardware threads, ensuring

Textures is a data-driven texture library and SVG pattern generator designed to create scalable vector graphic patterns. It serves as a vector graphics utility for programmatically building repeating patterns and fills for web-based data visualizations. The library focuses on using structured data to generate visual textures that distinguish between different categories of information. It employs a data-driven approach to create custom backgrounds and surface details, providing an alternative to color-based styling in charts and maps. The system handles the generation of repeating textures t

Skia is a high-performance 2D graphics rendering library used for drawing text, geometries, and images on digital surfaces. It functions as a hardware-accelerated graphics engine that offloads drawing operations to the GPU, a vector graphics processor for SVG and complex paths, and a typography engine for shaping and drawing characters with Unicode support. The project provides a cross-platform image codec for encoding and decoding standard image formats into raw pixel data across multiple operating systems. It also enables the development of user interfaces that maintain visual consistency a

This project is a creative software framework and procedural graphics toolset designed for building custom graphics, sound, and user interface software. It functions as a development environment that provides integrated project and dependency management for creating technical multimedia productions. The system serves as a historical source archive, preserving the code and assets used in technical creative productions from 2001 to 2011. It includes a media production bundler to package source code and assets into single executable distributions for end users. The framework covers a broad rang