{"id":19563,"date":"2018-01-19T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19563"},"modified":"2018-01-19T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:45:23","slug":"cg-programming-for-non-programmers-lesson-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19563","title":{"rendered":"CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For lesson 17 we will apply the <code>noise<\/code> function to something quite different:  Changing the shape of something.  Here we start to see that <code>noise<\/code> can be used pretty much anywhere, to make things look a little less synthetic.<\/p>\n<p>One way I like to think of it is that <code>noise<\/code> is kind of like salt.  You wouldn&#8217;t eat salt by itself.  But if you sprinkle just the right amount on your food, the food tastes better.<\/p>\n<p>You can see this lesson by <a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/cg\/lesson17>CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lesson 17 we will apply the noise function to something quite different: Changing the shape of something. Here we start to see that noise can be used pretty much anywhere, to make things look a little less synthetic. One way I like to think of it is that noise is kind of like salt. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19564,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions\/19564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}