/* fractalnoise.c LordHavocs fractal noise generator. Copyright (C) 2000 Forest `LordHavoc` Hale. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA $Id$ */ #include void fractalnoise (unsigned char *noise, int size) { int x, y, g, g2, amplitude, min, max, size1 = size - 1; int *noisebuf; #define n(x,y) noisebuf[((y)&size1)*size+((x)&size1)] noisebuf = calloc (size * size, sizeof (int)); amplitude = 32767; g2 = size; n (0, 0) = 0; for (; (g = g2 >> 1) >= 1; g2 >>= 1) { // subdivide, diamond-square algorythm (really this has little to do // with squares) // diamond for (y = 0; y < size; y += g2) for (x = 0; x < size; x += g2) n (x + g, y + g) = (n (x, y) + n (x + g2, y) + n (x, y + g2) + n (x + g2, y + g2)) >> 2; // square for (y = 0; y < size; y += g2) for (x = 0; x < size; x += g2) { n (x + g, y) = (n (x, y) + n (x + g2, y) + n (x + g, y - g) + n (x + g, y + g)) >> 2; n (x, y + g) = (n (x, y) + n (x, y + g2) + n (x - g, y + g) + n (x + g, y + g)) >> 2; } // brownian motion theory amplitude >>= 1; for (y = 0; y < size; y += g) for (x = 0; x < size; x += g) n (x, y) += (rand () & amplitude); } // find range of noise values min = max = 0; for (y = 0; y < size; y++) for (x = 0; x < size; x++) { if (n (x, y) < min) min = n (x, y); if (n (x, y) > max) max = n (x, y); } max -= min; // normalize noise and copy to output for (y = 0; y < size; y++) for (x = 0; x < size; x++) *noise++ = (n (x, y) - min) * 255 / max; free (noisebuf); #undef n }