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Smoothing noises with different amplitudes (Part 2)
Well, I'm continuing this question without answer (https://answers.unity.com/questions/1572689/smoothing-random-noises-with-different-amplitudes.html) and I have another question.
I have opted to use the contour/shadow of a shape (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53400394/translating-transforming-list-of-points-from-its-center-with-an-offset-distance).
This contour/shadow is bigger than the current path. I used this repository (https://github.com/n-yoda/unity-vertex-effects) to recreate the shadow. And this works pretty well, except for one fact.
To know the height of all points (obtained by this shadow algorithm (Line 13 of ModifiedShadow.cs & Line 69 of CircleOutline.cs)) I get the distance of the current point to the center and I divide between the maximum distance to the center:
float dist = orig.Max(v => (v - Center).magnitude);
foreach Point in poly --> float d = 1f - (Center - p).magnitude / dist;
Where orig is the entire list of points obtained by the shadow algorithm. D is the height of the shadow.
But the problem is obvious I get a perfect circle:
In red and black to see the contrast:
And this is not what I want:
As you can see this not a perfect gradient. Let's explain what's happening.
I use this library to generate noises: https://github.com/Auburns/FastNoise_CSharp
Note: If you want to know what I use to get noises with different amplitude: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53356072/smoothing-random-noises-with-different-amplitudes (see first block of code), to see this in action, see this repo
Green background color represent noises with a mean height of -0.25 and an amplitude of 0.3
White background color represent noises with a mean height of 0 and an amplitude of 0.1
Red means 1 (total interpolation for noises corresponding to white pixels)
Black means 0 (total interpolation for noises corresponding to green pixels)
That's why we have this output:
Actually, I have tried comparing distances of each individual point to the center, but this output a weird and unexpected result.
Actually, I don't know what to try...
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