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From: musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave)
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Subject: Re: Granite
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Date: 24 Nov 90 12:56:43 GMT
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  If you scale down the noise() function so that the bumps are small, and 
interpret it's output as intensity it looks rather like granite and is a lot
more flexible than a bitmap (though it requires a lot of computation).

  See Perlin's "An Image Synthesizer" in SIGGRAPH '85 for an example of what it
looks like.

							Ken
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