Perlin Noise Pixel Shaders

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2001
Authors
Hart, John C.
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
While working on a method for supporting real-time procedural solid texturing, we developed a general purpose multipass pixel shader to generate the Perlin noise function. We implemented this algorithm on SGI workstations using accelerated OpenGL PixelMap and PixelTransfer operations, achieving a rate of 2.5 Hz for a 256x256 image. We also implemented the noise algorithm on the NVidia GeForce2 using register combiners. Our register combiner implementation required 375 passes, but ran at 1.3 Hz. This exercise illustrated a variety of abilities and shortcomings of current graphics hardware. The paper concludes with an exploration of directions for expanding pixel shading hardware to further support iterative multipass pixel-shader applications.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGGH/EGGH01/087-094
,
booktitle = {
Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Graphics Hardware Workshop 2001
},
editor = {
Kurt Akeley and Ulrich Neumann
},
title = {{
Perlin Noise Pixel Shaders
}},
author = {
Hart, John C.
},
year = {
2001
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1727-3471
},
ISBN = {
158113407X
},
DOI = {
/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH01/087-094
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH01/087-094
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EGGH01: SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001