Perlin noise is procedurally generated gradient noise. As its characteristics can be controlled, it is used mainly in visual effects.
Perlin noise is described in more detail in this Wikipedia article.
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ampersand in code, what does it do
I found this code online that i'd like to understand. However, googling didn't turn up any results as to the meaning of the ampersand in the following code
return ( 1.0 - ( (x * (x * x * 15731 + 789221) + 1376312589) & 7fffffff) / 1073741824.0);
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Advanced Terrain Generation
I need to generate terrain. Easy enough you might say, but I need to create Biomes if you will(Can't think of another name) and lakes, Trees and all on a height map.
So I have really no idea how to use a height map or even perlin noise. If you could…
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