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baq on March 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Per...

Ultimately the goal is to make something good looking, how does a different noise algorithm matter? IOW why simplex generates better height maps than perlin?

TimorousBestie on March 8, 2025 [–]

Parent basically says it but Perlin noise tends to generate spatial correlations that don’t look uniform. Simplex noise doesn’t.

On the practical level, Simplex noise is also faster and generalizes to n-dimensional noise easier.

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