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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“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)