A never-released (3d space mmorpg wing-commander-esque) game my friends worked on for a while used this for texturing their worlds: http://www.cocommand.com/
Perlin Noise
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#12Wow, 2 Ken Perlin related posts in an hour! I met Ken Perlin once very briefly and randomly and was a bit in shock when I realized who I was talking to. He was in shock that I was in shock. Nice (and very smart) guy.
Re: Perlin Noise
#13If you're interested in noise functions, you might want to check out Pixar's wavelet noise - http://graphics.pixar.com/library/#WaveletNoise
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#14apostrophe's fail's
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#15This is just a simplistic description of Perlin Noise. However while implementing the algorithm this is not the way to go. Because it's very very slow -- the author has simply taken non-coherent noise and smoothened it and this is computationally very expensive. And also Ken Perlin has made an improved version to his original with some speedups and a reference implementation in Java can be found here: http://mrl.nyu.…
According to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Value_noise (which cites this), this page actually describes value noise, not Perlin. I emailed the author, who told me he no longer has access to the site, so unfortunately, people will be fooled for years to come.