What feels like a million years and a lifetime ago, I wrote up a library for perlin and simple noise in Racket. Inspired by Jens Axel Søgaard’s new Sketching library (processing in Racket) and a conversation thereabout, I figure it’s about time to push noise to the raco package manager!

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Source: A Maze of Twisty Little Cubicles¹

Part 1: Generate a procedurally generated maze using the following equation:

• x^2 + 3x + 2xy + y + y^2 + c

x and y are the coordinates of a point and c is a constant.

Count the number of bits for each point. Even is open spaces, odd is walls.

What is the shortest route from (0, 0) to (31, 39)?

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Last Thursday I wrote a post about generating Perlin/simplex noise in Racket. Later that day, I posted to the Racket mailing list asking how I could make it faster. What resulted was a whole sequence of responses (primarily about Typed Racket) and a bit of a rabbit hole that I’m still trying to wrap my head around.

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Many games need noise. No, not that noise–this noise. Or better yet, this noise. More seriously, noise in this context refers to psuedo-randomly generated images that can be used for natural looking terrain generation¹. Something like this:

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