PerlinNoise.h

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#include <vector>
 
// THIS CLASS IS A TRANSLATION TO C++11 FROM THE REFERENCE
// JAVA IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IMPROVED PERLIN FUNCTION (see http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/noise/)
// THE ORIGINAL JAVA IMPLEMENTATION IS COPYRIGHT 2002 KEN PERLIN
 
// I ADDED AN EXTRA METHOD THAT GENERATES A NEW PERMUTATION VECTOR
// (THIS IS NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL IMPLEMENTATION)
 
#ifndef PERLINNOISE_H
#define PERLINNOISE_H
 
class PerlinNoise
{
public:
    PerlinNoise();

    PerlinNoise( unsigned int seed );
 
    // Returns between 0.0f and 1.0f
    float noise( float x, float y, float z ) const;
    float noise( float x, float y ) const;
 
private:
    float fade( float t ) const;
    float lerp( float t, float a, float b ) const;
    float grad( int hash, float x, float y, float z ) const;
    float grad( int hash, float x, float y ) const;
 
    // The permutation vector
    std::vector<int> p;
};
 
#endif