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+// noise1234
+//
+// Author: Stefan Gustavson, 2003-2005
+// Contact: stefan.gustavson@liu.se
+//
+// This code was GPL licensed until February 2011.
+// As the original author of this code, I hereby
+// release it into the public domain.
+// Please feel free to use it for whatever you want.
+// Credit is appreciated where appropriate, and I also
+// appreciate being told where this code finds any use,
+// but you may do as you like.
+
+/*
+ * This implementation is "Improved Noise" as presented by
+ * Ken Perlin at Siggraph 2002. The 3D function is a direct port
+ * of his Java reference code which was once publicly available
+ * on www.noisemachine.com (although I cleaned it up, made it
+ * faster and made the code more readable), but the 1D, 2D and
+ * 4D functions were implemented from scratch by me.
+ *
+ * This is a backport to C of my improved noise class in C++
+ * which was included in the Aqsis renderer project.
+ * It is highly reusable without source code modifications.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "noise1234.h"
+
+// This is the new and improved, C(2) continuous interpolant
+#define FADE(t) ( t * t * t * ( t * ( t * 6 - 15 ) + 10 ) )
+
+#define FASTFLOOR(x) ( ((int)(x)<(x)) ? ((int)x) : ((int)x-1 ) )
+#define LERP(t, a, b) ((a) + (t)*((b)-(a)))
+
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Static data
+
+/*
+ * Permutation table. This is just a random jumble of all numbers 0-255,
+ * repeated twice to avoid wrapping the index at 255 for each lookup.
+ * This needs to be exactly the same for all instances on all platforms,
+ * so it's easiest to just keep it as static explicit data.
+ * This also removes the need for any initialisation of this class.
+ *
+ * Note that making this an int[] instead of a char[] might make the
+ * code run faster on platforms with a high penalty for unaligned single
+ * byte addressing. Intel x86 is generally single-byte-friendly, but
+ * some other CPUs are faster with 4-aligned reads.
+ * However, a char[] is smaller, which avoids cache trashing, and that
+ * is probably the most important aspect on most architectures.
+ * This array is accessed a *lot* by the noise functions.
+ * A vector-valued noise over 3D accesses it 96 times, and a
+ * float-valued 4D noise 64 times. We want this to fit in the cache!
+ */
+unsigned char perm[] = {151,160,137,91,90,15,
+  131,13,201,95,96,53,194,233,7,225,140,36,103,30,69,142,8,99,37,240,21,10,23,
+  190, 6,148,247,120,234,75,0,26,197,62,94,252,219,203,117,35,11,32,57,177,33,
+  88,237,149,56,87,174,20,125,136,171,168, 68,175,74,165,71,134,139,48,27,166,
+  77,146,158,231,83,111,229,122,60,211,133,230,220,105,92,41,55,46,245,40,244,
+  102,143,54, 65,25,63,161, 1,216,80,73,209,76,132,187,208, 89,18,169,200,196,
+  135,130,116,188,159,86,164,100,109,198,173,186, 3,64,52,217,226,250,124,123,
+  5,202,38,147,118,126,255,82,85,212,207,206,59,227,47,16,58,17,182,189,28,42,
+  223,183,170,213,119,248,152, 2,44,154,163, 70,221,153,101,155,167, 43,172,9,
+  129,22,39,253, 19,98,108,110,79,113,224,232,178,185, 112,104,218,246,97,228,
+  251,34,242,193,238,210,144,12,191,179,162,241, 81,51,145,235,249,14,239,107,
+  49,192,214, 31,181,199,106,157,184, 84,204,176,115,121,50,45,127, 4,150,254,
+  138,236,205,93,222,114,67,29,24,72,243,141,128,195,78,66,215,61,156,180,
+  151,160,137,91,90,15,
+  131,13,201,95,96,53,194,233,7,225,140,36,103,30,69,142,8,99,37,240,21,10,23,
+  190, 6,148,247,120,234,75,0,26,197,62,94,252,219,203,117,35,11,32,57,177,33,
+  88,237,149,56,87,174,20,125,136,171,168, 68,175,74,165,71,134,139,48,27,166,
+  77,146,158,231,83,111,229,122,60,211,133,230,220,105,92,41,55,46,245,40,244,
+  102,143,54, 65,25,63,161, 1,216,80,73,209,76,132,187,208, 89,18,169,200,196,
+  135,130,116,188,159,86,164,100,109,198,173,186, 3,64,52,217,226,250,124,123,
+  5,202,38,147,118,126,255,82,85,212,207,206,59,227,47,16,58,17,182,189,28,42,
+  223,183,170,213,119,248,152, 2,44,154,163, 70,221,153,101,155,167, 43,172,9,
+  129,22,39,253, 19,98,108,110,79,113,224,232,178,185, 112,104,218,246,97,228,
+  251,34,242,193,238,210,144,12,191,179,162,241, 81,51,145,235,249,14,239,107,
+  49,192,214, 31,181,199,106,157,184, 84,204,176,115,121,50,45,127, 4,150,254,
+  138,236,205,93,222,114,67,29,24,72,243,141,128,195,78,66,215,61,156,180
+};
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/*
+ * Helper functions to compute gradients-dot-residualvectors (1D to 4D)
+ * Note that these generate gradients of more than unit length. To make
+ * a close match with the value range of classic Perlin noise, the final
+ * noise values need to be rescaled. To match the RenderMan noise in a
+ * statistical sense, the approximate scaling values (empirically
+ * determined from test renderings) are:
+ * 1D noise needs rescaling with 0.188
+ * 2D noise needs rescaling with 0.507
+ * 3D noise needs rescaling with 0.936
+ * 4D noise needs rescaling with 0.87
+ * Note that these noise functions are the most practical and useful
+ * signed version of Perlin noise. To return values according to the
+ * RenderMan specification from the SL noise() and pnoise() functions,
+ * the noise values need to be scaled and offset to [0,1], like this:
+ * float SLnoise = (noise3(x,y,z) + 1.0) * 0.5;
+ */
+
+float grad1( int hash, float x ) {
+    int h = hash & 15;
+    float grad = 1.0 + (h & 7);  // Gradient value 1.0, 2.0, ..., 8.0
+    if (h&8) grad = -grad;         // and a random sign for the gradient
+    return ( grad * x );           // Multiply the gradient with the distance
+}
+
+float grad2( int hash, float x, float y ) {
+    int h = hash & 7;      // Convert low 3 bits of hash code
+    float u = h<4 ? x : y;  // into 8 simple gradient directions,
+    float v = h<4 ? y : x;  // and compute the dot product with (x,y).
+    return ((h&1)? -u : u) + ((h&2)? -2.0*v : 2.0*v);
+}
+
+float grad3( int hash, float x, float y , float z ) {
+    int h = hash & 15;     // Convert low 4 bits of hash code into 12 simple
+    float u = h<8 ? x : y; // gradient directions, and compute dot product.
+    float v = h<4 ? y : h==12||h==14 ? x : z; // Fix repeats at h = 12 to 15
+    return ((h&1)? -u : u) + ((h&2)? -v : v);
+}
+
+float grad4( int hash, float x, float y, float z, float t ) {
+    int h = hash & 31;      // Convert low 5 bits of hash code into 32 simple
+    float u = h<24 ? x : y; // gradient directions, and compute dot product.
+    float v = h<16 ? y : z;
+    float w = h<8 ? z : t;
+    return ((h&1)? -u : u) + ((h&2)? -v : v) + ((h&4)? -w : w);
+}
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/** 1D float Perlin noise, SL "noise()"
+ */
+float noise1( float x )
+{
+    int ix0, ix1;
+    float fx0, fx1;
+    float s, n0, n1;
+
+    ix0 = FASTFLOOR( x ); // Integer part of x
+    fx0 = x - ix0;       // Fractional part of x
+    fx1 = fx0 - 1.0f;
+    ix1 = ( ix0+1 ) & 0xff;
+    ix0 = ix0 & 0xff;    // Wrap to 0..255
+
+    s = FADE( fx0 );
+
+    n0 = grad1( perm[ ix0 ], fx0 );
+    n1 = grad1( perm[ ix1 ], fx1 );
+    return 0.188f * ( LERP( s, n0, n1 ) );
+}
+
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/** 2D float Perlin noise.
+ */
+float noise2( float x, float y )
+{
+    int ix0, iy0, ix1, iy1;
+    float fx0, fy0, fx1, fy1;
+    float s, t, nx0, nx1, n0, n1;
+
+    ix0 = FASTFLOOR( x ); // Integer part of x
+    iy0 = FASTFLOOR( y ); // Integer part of y
+    fx0 = x - ix0;        // Fractional part of x
+    fy0 = y - iy0;        // Fractional part of y
+    fx1 = fx0 - 1.0f;
+    fy1 = fy0 - 1.0f;
+    ix1 = (ix0 + 1) & 0xff;  // Wrap to 0..255
+    iy1 = (iy0 + 1) & 0xff;
+    ix0 = ix0 & 0xff;
+    iy0 = iy0 & 0xff;
+
+    t = FADE( fy0 );
+    s = FADE( fx0 );
+
+    nx0 = grad2(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0]], fx0, fy0);
+    nx1 = grad2(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1]], fx0, fy1);
+    n0 = LERP( t, nx0, nx1 );
+
+    nx0 = grad2(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0]], fx1, fy0);
+    nx1 = grad2(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1]], fx1, fy1);
+    n1 = LERP(t, nx0, nx1);
+
+    return 0.507f * ( LERP( s, n0, n1 ) );
+}
+
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/** 3D float Perlin noise.
+ */
+float noise3( float x, float y, float z )
+{
+    int ix0, iy0, ix1, iy1, iz0, iz1;
+    float fx0, fy0, fz0, fx1, fy1, fz1;
+    float s, t, r;
+    float nxy0, nxy1, nx0, nx1, n0, n1;
+
+    ix0 = FASTFLOOR( x ); // Integer part of x
+    iy0 = FASTFLOOR( y ); // Integer part of y
+    iz0 = FASTFLOOR( z ); // Integer part of z
+    fx0 = x - ix0;        // Fractional part of x
+    fy0 = y - iy0;        // Fractional part of y
+    fz0 = z - iz0;        // Fractional part of z
+    fx1 = fx0 - 1.0f;
+    fy1 = fy0 - 1.0f;
+    fz1 = fz0 - 1.0f;
+    ix1 = ( ix0 + 1 ) & 0xff; // Wrap to 0..255
+    iy1 = ( iy0 + 1 ) & 0xff;
+    iz1 = ( iz0 + 1 ) & 0xff;
+    ix0 = ix0 & 0xff;
+    iy0 = iy0 & 0xff;
+    iz0 = iz0 & 0xff;
+
+    r = FADE( fz0 );
+    t = FADE( fy0 );
+    s = FADE( fx0 );
+
+    nxy0 = grad3(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0]]], fx0, fy0, fz0);
+    nxy1 = grad3(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1]]], fx0, fy0, fz1);
+    nx0 = LERP( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    nxy0 = grad3(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0]]], fx0, fy1, fz0);
+    nxy1 = grad3(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1]]], fx0, fy1, fz1);
+    nx1 = LERP( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    n0 = LERP( t, nx0, nx1 );
+
+    nxy0 = grad3(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0]]], fx1, fy0, fz0);
+    nxy1 = grad3(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1]]], fx1, fy0, fz1);
+    nx0 = LERP( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    nxy0 = grad3(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0]]], fx1, fy1, fz0);
+    nxy1 = grad3(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1]]], fx1, fy1, fz1);
+    nx1 = LERP( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    n1 = LERP( t, nx0, nx1 );
+
+    return 0.936f * ( LERP( s, n0, n1 ) );
+}
+
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/** 4D float Perlin noise.
+ */
+
+float noise4( float x, float y, float z, float w )
+{
+    int ix0, iy0, iz0, iw0, ix1, iy1, iz1, iw1;
+    float fx0, fy0, fz0, fw0, fx1, fy1, fz1, fw1;
+    float s, t, r, q;
+    float nxyz0, nxyz1, nxy0, nxy1, nx0, nx1, n0, n1;
+
+    ix0 = FASTFLOOR( x ); // Integer part of x
+    iy0 = FASTFLOOR( y ); // Integer part of y
+    iz0 = FASTFLOOR( z ); // Integer part of y
+    iw0 = FASTFLOOR( w ); // Integer part of w
+    fx0 = x - ix0;        // Fractional part of x
+    fy0 = y - iy0;        // Fractional part of y
+    fz0 = z - iz0;        // Fractional part of z
+    fw0 = w - iw0;        // Fractional part of w
+    fx1 = fx0 - 1.0f;
+    fy1 = fy0 - 1.0f;
+    fz1 = fz0 - 1.0f;
+    fw1 = fw0 - 1.0f;
+    ix1 = ( ix0 + 1 ) & 0xff;  // Wrap to 0..255
+    iy1 = ( iy0 + 1 ) & 0xff;
+    iz1 = ( iz0 + 1 ) & 0xff;
+    iw1 = ( iw0 + 1 ) & 0xff;
+    ix0 = ix0 & 0xff;
+    iy0 = iy0 & 0xff;
+    iz0 = iz0 & 0xff;
+    iw0 = iw0 & 0xff;
+
+    q = FADE( fw0 );
+    r = FADE( fz0 );
+    t = FADE( fy0 );
+    s = FADE( fx0 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw0]]]], fx0, fy0, fz0, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw1]]]], fx0, fy0, fz0, fw1);
+    nxy0 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw0]]]], fx0, fy0, fz1, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw1]]]], fx0, fy0, fz1, fw1);
+    nxy1 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nx0 = LERP ( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw0]]]], fx0, fy1, fz0, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw1]]]], fx0, fy1, fz0, fw1);
+    nxy0 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw0]]]], fx0, fy1, fz1, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix0 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw1]]]], fx0, fy1, fz1, fw1);
+    nxy1 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nx1 = LERP ( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    n0 = LERP( t, nx0, nx1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw0]]]], fx1, fy0, fz0, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw1]]]], fx1, fy0, fz0, fw1);
+    nxy0 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw0]]]], fx1, fy0, fz1, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy0 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw1]]]], fx1, fy0, fz1, fw1);
+    nxy1 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nx0 = LERP ( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw0]]]], fx1, fy1, fz0, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz0 + perm[iw1]]]], fx1, fy1, fz0, fw1);
+    nxy0 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nxyz0 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw0]]]], fx1, fy1, fz1, fw0);
+    nxyz1 = grad4(perm[ix1 + perm[iy1 + perm[iz1 + perm[iw1]]]], fx1, fy1, fz1, fw1);
+    nxy1 = LERP( q, nxyz0, nxyz1 );
+
+    nx1 = LERP ( r, nxy0, nxy1 );
+
+    n1 = LERP( t, nx0, nx1 );
+
+    return 0.87f * ( LERP( s, n0, n1 ) );
+}
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/lib/noise1234/noise1234.h b/src/lib/noise1234/noise1234.h
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+// noise1234
+//
+// Author: Stefan Gustavson, 2003-2005
+// Contact: stefan.gustavson@liu.se
+//
+// This code was GPL licensed until February 2011.
+// As the original author of this code, I hereby
+// release it into the public domain.
+// Please feel free to use it for whatever you want.
+// Credit is appreciated where appropriate, and I also
+// appreciate being told where this code finds any use,
+// but you may do as you like.
+
+/*
+ * This implementation is "Improved Noise" as presented by
+ * Ken Perlin at Siggraph 2002. The 3D function is a direct port
+ * of his Java reference code which was once publicly available
+ * on www.noisemachine.com (although I cleaned it up, made it
+ * faster and made the code more readable), but the 1D, 2D and
+ * 4D functions were implemented from scratch by me.
+ *
+ * This is a backport to C of my improved noise class in C++
+ * which was included in the Aqsis renderer project.
+ * It is highly reusable without source code modifications.
+ *
+ */
+
+/** 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D float Perlin noise
+ */
+extern float noise1( float x );
+extern float noise2( float x, float y );
+extern float noise3( float x, float y, float z );
+extern float noise4( float x, float y, float z, float w );