A library for generating coherent noise. It can be used to procedurally create natural-looking textures (such as wood, stone, or clouds), terrain heightmaps, and other things.

SharpNoise is a loose port of Jason Bevins' libNoise to C#. It adds some .Net features such as serialization and support for C# Object Initializer syntax. SharpNoise is published unter the terms of the Gnu LGPL 3.

Available on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SharpNoise

SharpNoise has modules as building blocks for noise generators. There are two kinds of modules:

• Generator modules, which produce the actual noise
• Modifier and Combiner modules, which take one or more inputs and do something with them, producing a new value

These modules can be joined together in a tree structure to generate very complex noise patterns.

To see how to use SharpNoise, check out the example applications:

• ComplexPlanetExample generates a complex planetary surface, using over 100 connected noise modules.
• OpenGLExample renders ever-changing data from a simpler noise generator in real time, using OpenGL 3.3.