# Help with creating a noise pattern

**URL:** <https://forum.electromage.com/t/help-with-creating-a-noise-pattern/139>\
**Category:** Ideas and Tips\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/help-with-creating-a-noise-pattern/139 "2019-12-10T00:41:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/help-with-creating-a-noise-pattern/139/2 "2019-12-10T19:28:47Z")

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This is the source mentioned from the comments, it could be ported (with some effort):

> <https://gist.github.com/StefanPetrick/96574043d6425cc4f3ee39a2245ac965>

  
I glanced at the code, not really sure what it’s doing or why its called noise. Maybe some kind of gaussian or perlin noise generation.

The display seems to add/blend some layers together. Something similar looking could be made with various waveforms overlapping, not true noise, but similar looking. Search for plasma effects. Something like this:

[https://www.bidouille.org/prog/plasma](https://www.bidouille.org/prog/plasma)

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