noise

Good Perlin noise resources/implementation?

Are there any good resources out there detailing Perlin noise generation? I understand that most languages have noise generating libraries available, but I'm interested in creating my own for fun/experience. I've already looked at this, which seems pretty popular, but it only gives an in-depth explanation of one dimensional noise. Google...

Filtering constant noise out of a sound stream

After watching the first game of the FIFA worldcup I was very annoyed by the sound of the Vuvuzelas. A theoretical question came up about filtering that noise out of the sound stream. What algorithms are needed to remove such a "constant" noise and is it possible to keep the quality of other background sounds? ...

how to disable mysql's match query's 50% exclusion

So apparently if a Mysql table's fulltext index contains a keyword that appears in 50% of the data rows, that keyword will be ignored by the match query So if I have a table with the fulltext index 'content' which contains 50 entries and 27 of the entries contains the word 'computer' in the content field, and I run the query: SELECT *...

Which algorithm will be required to do this?

I have data of this form: for x=1, y is one of {1,4,6,7,9,18,16,19} for x=2, y is one of {1,5,7,4} for x=3, y is one of {2,6,4,8,2} .... for x=100, y is one of {2,7,89,4,5} Only one of the values in each set is the correct value, the rest is random noise. I know that the correct values describe a sinusoid function whose parameters a...

Noise effect on Android background

Hello, A lot of new Android applications I've been seeing are using a noise effect on their backgrounds, usually a gradient. What interesting is that some applications use radiel gradients throughout their application with this effect, which would require a lot of disk space for the images. Now Android has GradientDrawable which can cre...

Query noise level in Android

I want to develop a small Android app to measure the current noise level (probablyin dB). But I have no idea what to look for in the libs. I don't want to record the noise. Can someone give me a pointer what classes to look at? ...

Good way to procedurally generate a "blob" graphic in 2D

I'm looking to create a "blob" in a computationally fast manner. A blob here is defined as a collection of pixels that could be any shape, but all connected. Examples: .ooo.... ..oooo.. ....oo.. .oooooo. ..o..o.. ...ooooooooooooooooooo... ..........oooo.......oo.. .....ooooooo..........o.. .....oo.................. ...

GLSL 3D Noise Implementation on ATI Graphics Cards

I have tried so many different strategies to get a usable noise function and none of them work. So, how do you implement perlin noise on an ATI graphics card in GLSL? Here are the methods I have tried: I have tried putting the permutation and gradient data into a GL_RGBA 1D texture and calling the texture1D function. However, one call t...

Disable noise cancellation iPhone 4 microphone

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to disable the noise reduction microphone via code. My app plays background music that gets trim off because of this new mic. So i would like to have the background noise mic disabled while my app is open and running. Thank you ...

Slight noise problem when changing the volume in my soft synth

Hi, I'm writing a little software synthesizer and it sounds pretty decent except for a slight noise when the volume changes. e.g. while the volume is changing, a sine wave sounds more like a flute, when the volume is constant it sounds bright and pure. As the volume changes pretty much constantly because of the ADSR, this is very annoyin...