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ambient

DESIGN
Velocity0.0

Generate multidimensional noise patterns for generative art and textures in R

github.com/thomasp85/ambient ↗

A 2020 tidy-API rewrite that ambient has been coasting on ever since.

noise generationgenerative arttidy apirmaintenance mode
◆Current state
ambient generates Perlin, simplex, worley and related noise fields for R, wrapping the FastNoise C++ library. Its shape was set by the 1.0.0 tidy-interface rewrite in December 2020; the two releases since have been a blue-noise addition and a one-line overflow fix. Nothing has shipped in the visible window since September 2022.
◆Where it's heading
The arc is complete-then-quiet: a large API redesign, a short consolidation tail, then silence. The cpp11 migration in 1.0.1 reads as the maintainer clearing CRAN-side obligations rather than opening new work. On the evidence here the package is in maintenance, not development.
◆Prediction
The entries give no signal of planned work; the most likely next release is another compatibility or CRAN-compliance patch rather than new generators.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3y ago

    Integer overflow fixed in white noise generator

    A single-line patch for an integer overflow in the white noise generator, and the last thing ambient has shipped. It closes out the 1.0 line rather than extending it.

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  2. 3y ago

    Blue noise generator added; compiled code moves to cpp11

    Adds noise_blue() for void-and-cluster blue noise and moves the compiled layer to cpp11. Both are consolidation on top of the 1.0 rewrite rather than a new direction.

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  3. 5y ago

    Tidy noise API arrives with long_grid() and gen_* generators

    ⚡ SPARK

    The release that defines the package as it stands today: a tidy, data-frame-oriented noise API layered over the original FastNoise array constructors. Everything shipped since has been maintenance on top of it.

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