OpenSimplex2 VS webgl-noise

Wow you have been playing with noise for a while :) . It amazes me all the different noises that exist now.. Perlin, Simplex, OpenSimplex, OpenSimplex2S, OpenSimplex2F, Worley... If you are curious about OpenSimplex https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2

Probably true, although a neat repo for open simplex is https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2

This may not answer what you're actually looking for - but a few years ago I found a library for coherent noise in Java, which at least meets my needs. I use bits and pieces of the Open Simplex Noise implementation from that library. It's unlicense/CC0, so easily copy-paste-able straight in to one's own project. https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2/

So I was looking for a noise function, and I found this repo from the author of the OpenSimplex algorithm. And in the GLSL implementation, which is the one I'm gonna use, since I want to generate terrain with compute shaders, the function%20%7B) looks like this:

If you want to feel safer from that, you might opt to use one of these instead. Use the ImproveXY endpoint to get a Z that repeats after 500.5626833874055. Go up one directory and into the glsl directory if you need GLSL versions instead .

Fair. I definitely agree Simplex has some characteristics that don't work great in some places. Especially when you threshold near zero of a single octave. Have you tried OpenSimplex2S? It's made to be less "bubbly" than standard simplex. In own repo, In FastNoiseLite, [Shader preview (3D noise)[https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ttdGR8]. Both the 2D function and 2D slices of the 3D function might be worth looking into if you haven't yet.

Here's a link to the original implementation: github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2/blob/master/glsl/OpenSimplex2.glsl

you may want to start with (4d cellular) ashima-simplex-noise functions of https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise as basis function, as this is not convergent+iterative like other procgen functions (that are more like a convergent game-of-life). demos of them are in https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=ashima&sort=newest&filter=

Oh nice. I think the GLM noise is actually based off the Ashima Arts + Stefan Gustavson GLSL noise https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise

Oh I see what you mean now. Not saying https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2 isn't safe, just that https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise/blob/master/src/noise3D.glsl isn't. Ty for clarifying, makes perfect sense now!

Several years ago when I was experimenting with all of this I found that OpenSimplex was significantly slower than regular Simplex (not sure what library I was using). Maybe it's improved since then? Anyway, I've since moved my noise computation to the GPU and speed is less of an issue for that particular project. I'm currently using the simplex noise function from GLM, which comes from https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise. Do you have any idea how that compares with the various noise functions you've listed?