{"id":20843,"date":"2019-02-26T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:32:56","slug":"cloudy-planet-breakdown-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20843","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy planet breakdown, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, we can do better than simple noise texture. Back when I came up with noise, I also used it to build some other interesting functions. One of them was the turbulence function, which creates a kind of fractal texture.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see I&#8217;ve replaced noise with turbulence:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/crp3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/crp3.png\" alt=\"crp3\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/crp3.png 600w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/crp3-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/crp3-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the texture looks a lot more like cloud cover. But it doesn&#8217;t yet have that delicate wind-blown wispy quality, and it doesn&#8217;t yet animate. You can see it live, together with the code that generates it, by <a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/crp_files\/crp3>CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, we can do better than simple noise texture. Back when I came up with noise, I also used it to build some other interesting functions. One of them was the turbulence function, which creates a kind of fractal texture. Here you can see I&#8217;ve replaced noise with turbulence: Now the texture looks a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cloudy planet breakdown, part 3&#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\/20843"}],"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=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20847,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}