This is improved verison of perlin noise presented by Ken Perlin in 2002. (samgzman, is this the one you tought?).

AP: Most siggraph papers can be found free around the net, but some are under ACM or simmilar.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

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AP: Most siggraph papers can be found free around the net, but some are under ACM or simmilar.
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I think the paper in question is this one:

"K. Perlin, “An Image Synthesizer”, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH’85. In Computer Graphics (1985), vol 19, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 287-296."

I have looked around, but these papers are slightly difficult to find as they are scattered everywhere around the net, if they are on the net at all. It is too bad an organized collection does not exist at http://www.siggraph.org/.

I found "An Image Synthesizer" here:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325247&coll=portal&dl=ACM
(warning: page took about 5-10 minutes to load)

However, one of the following is required to download it:

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SIGGRAPH Membership $85.00
SIGGRAPH Online Membership $27.00
SIGGRAPH Print Membership $85.00
ACM Digital Library (subscription) $198.00
Online ACM SIGGRAPH Subscription $27.00*
Siggraph Newsletter (subscription) $85.00
Purchase this Article. $10.00
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* This shows as $0.00 but is actually $27.00. I emailed ACM and they replied that the cost of "Online ACM SIGGRAPH Subscription" is $27.00. The $0.00 is a mistake. They are looking into it now.



[Edited by - Matthew Doucette on April 21, 2009 10:44:11 AM]