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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-1-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-1-2022
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09 Feb 2022
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Perlin noise as a hierarchical neutral landscape model

Thomas R. Etherington

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Landscape ecologists often use virtual or imaginary landscapes to explore how landscapes can effect ecological processes. In a similar manner, procedural modelling algorithms are used in computer graphics for the creation of virtual or imaginary worlds used in movies and computer games. Perlin noise is a procedural modelling algorithm that could be very useful for landscape ecologists, and this work explains and translates Perlin noise for landscape ecologists.