I''ve been looking at perlin noise a little, but I''m a little confused on one point.
I have a 3D implementation of the noise function, and it returns values between [-1, 1]. This is great, but I can''t figure out how to go from the noise function to actually generating colorful images. For instance:
Marble like this:
is generated by doing this with the noise function:
I can follow that equation no problem, but how do I use its result to get independent RGB color channels? I''m basically trying to understand how the above picture is more than just grayscale.
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I''m basically trying to throw this into my raytracer, so I can just plug ray intersection points into the noise algorithm and get a diffuse color for my result.
Thanks for any help.
--Ben
