I lose myself in perlin noise

Perlin noise is an algorithm that mimics natural randomization in digital imagery. It is frequently used to create textured terrain and realistic vapor - if you've played Minecraft, you've seen it in action. Sometimes I have to remind myself: the pattern of the natural world is less perfect, but better.

By Suze KayPublished 12 months ago • Updated 12 months ago • 1 min read

generated new a forest only meant

to be a forest in bumps and trunks

a water vast enough to remember

no motion an ocean with no tide

a hundred million stars looks like

a crowdshot looks like ants

looks like nothing at all and still

it’s enough perlin noise to get lost in vanish

and where am I stiff in this sterile

landscape of pixels burdened by an axe

my foot my breath my wish

for a map that tells me I am here

what is a house if it never erodes

or a tree no different from its neighbor

and who am I to wish

for better or different oh disrupt me

give me drama present fear and

joy their fierce peaks I

fight to be heard over the crash

and froth below above inside

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A.N. because Vocal formatting vanishes completely upon upload (?!), a screenshot of how it should appear:

Pastry chef by day, insomniac writer by night.

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