ambient

1.0.3

A Generator of Multidimensional Noise

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37.8Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenFirst published 2018-08-305 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Generation of natural looking noise has many application within simulation, procedural generation, and art, to name a few. The 'ambient' package provides an interface to the 'FastNoise' C++ library and allows for efficient generation of perlin, simplex, worley, cubic, value, and white noise with optional perturbation in either 2, 3, or 4 (in case of simplex and white noise) dimensions.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ambient", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("thomasp85/ambient")

Development version from thomasp85/ambient. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ambient

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ambient

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ambient

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 214 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 64%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

37.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,530 · ~104/day · ~3.2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thomasp85/ambient

100Stars

9Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

91Commits

5Contributors

91 commits · Last activity 2025-12-04 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (5)

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Suggests (1)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

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Authors (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer, Author

Jordan Peck

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-30
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 677 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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