Blue Noise links

bluenoise.md

Use cases

• Bluenoise in the game INSIDE (dithering, raymarching, reflections)
• Dithering, Ray marching, shadows etc
• A Survery of Blue Noise and Its Applications

Textures/Matrices for direct use (data!)

• Moments In Graphics (void-and-cluster)
  • 2D
  • 3D and 4D
• Bart Wronski Implementation of Solid Angle algorithm
• Forced Random Dithering matrices
• from githole
• from shadertoy

Higher dimensions

Spatio Temporal Blue Noise

• Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Masks
• Perceptual error optimization for Monte Carlo animation rendering

Screenspace bluenoise

• A Low-Discrepancy Sampler that Distributes Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Screen Space (presentation)
• Distributing Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Screen Space by Permuting Pixel Seeds Between Frames

On generating textures/matrices

• Analysis of 2D Void and Cluster and examples of use-cases
• Analysis of 3D Void and Cluster
• Solid Angle Simulated Annealing Algorithm
• Bart Wronski Analysis of Blue Noise
• Bart Wronski: Single Pass Void and Cluster
• Masters Thesis analysing 2D Forced Random Dithering
• Paper on Forced Random Sampling
• Original Article on Forced Random Dithering
• Recursive Wang Tiles
• Blue Noise Through Optimal Transport

Implementations (code!)

• Solid Angle Implementation by Bart Wronski
• Void and Cluster Python implementation
• Void and Cluster 2D,3D,4D python implementation
• Recursive Wang Tiles
• Void and Cluster GPU by Patapom
• Forced Random Dithering (cpu and very fast gpu)
• Forced Random Dithering (simple and elegant c++ implementation)
• Capacity-Constrained Point Distributions: A Variant of Lloyd's Method
• err, some blue noise implementation
• Paniq's Progressive Shadertoy

On point sets

• Great Analysis of various algorithms
• Stippling and Blue Noise Generation (using Wang tiles)
• Blue Noise Sampling with Controlled Aliasing
• Fast Tile-Based Adaptive Sampling with User-Specified Fourier Spectra
• A Variant of Lloyd’s Method
• Low Discrepancy Blue Noise Sampling
• Projective Blue Noise
• On Triangular Meshes
• Isotropic QuasiRandom BlueNoise (C++ Implementation)
• Fast Poisson-Disc Sampling in Arbitrary Dimensions javascript-implementation
• Spoke Darts for High-Dimensional Blue Noise Sampling
• Efficient Generation
• Capacity-Constrained Point Distributions: A Variant of Lloyd’s Method

Analysis

• http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~gsingh/papers/2019-singh-fourier/2019-singh-fourier.pdf

Don P. Mitchell

• Generating Antialiased Images at Low Sampling Densities
• Computing the Discrepancy with Applications to Supersampling Patterns
• Quasirandom Techniques
• Ray Tracing and Irregularities of Distribution

An entire section dedicated to Alan Wolfe's Adventures into Blue Noise :)

• https://github.com/Atrix256/SampleZoo
• https://blog.demofox.org/2018/01/30/what-the-heck-is-blue-noise/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2017/10/20/generating-blue-noise-sample-points-with-mitchells-best-candidate-algorithm/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2017/10/25/transmuting-white-noise-to-blue-red-green-purple/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2018/08/07/tiled-blue-noise/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2018/08/12/not-all-blue-noise-is-created-equal/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2017/10/31/animating-noise-for-integration-over-time/
• https://blog.demofox.org/2017/11/03/animating-noise-for-integration-over-time-2-uniform-over-time/

For Blue Noise generation on 3D surfaces you could consider also:

Efficient and Flexible Sampling with Blue Noise Properties of Triangular Meshes
Massimiliano Corsini, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Number 6, page 914--924 - 2012 http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/Publications/2012/CCS12/

for this algorithm there is a gpl implementation available in vcglib that you can try online in meshlabjs (the javascript based version of the well known meshlab)