Interactive Methods for Procedural Texture Generation with Noise

Many computer graphics applications have used procedural noise since the 1980s, but there are still very few tools which allow non programming-oriented users to make procedural textures. This paper attempts to provide a framework for building and creating procedural noise based textures, in a way that can be easily abstracted and understood by those users. A careful study is conducted of Perlin Noise, and similar interfaces and tools are examined in order to create a framework centered around composable parts and semantic abstractions. The framework is then used to build a proof-of-concept interface which exemplifies some of the conclusions drawn from the study. The proof-of-concept interface successfully creates an environment which can be used to create procedural textures, and serves as a guide for future interfaces in the field