Perlin noise is a computer-generated visual effect developed by Ken Perlin, who won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for inventing it. It can be used to simulate elements from nature, and is especially useful in circumstances where computer memory is limited.
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“With the noise of the mourning of the Swattish nation!
Fallen is at length
Its tower of strength;
Its sun is dimmed ere it had nooned;
Dead lies the great Ahkoond,
The great Ahkoond of Swat
Is not!”
—George Thomas Lanigan (1845–1886)