Fractal/coherent noise namespace (Module naming)

FoxtrotUniform has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I've been spurred on by bladx's questions about random images -- it's about time for me to write a module for generating Perlin noise, other forms of coherent noise, fBm noise, multifractals, and so on. Problem is, I don't know where to put it when it's done. Should I see about creating a new Noise:: namespace? Put it in something graphics-related? (All the applications I know of for this stuff are graphics-related.) Should it go in Math::, since all this is about generating numbers with particular properties? Anyone even have an opinion?

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Re: Fractal/coherent noise namespace by mattr (Curate) on Aug 26, 2001 at 17:54 UTC
I noticed Random number functionality is often put in a subclass under whatever topic it is in. Perhaps the Math:: namespace would be best since it would seem to be the most general. As I understand it, "noise" is a mathematical, or information science (signal processing) notion, whereas as a new noise namespace I'd think about audio noise first. Seems like you want noise more than graphics so I'd say noise::image rather than image::noise.	[reply]

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Re: Fractal/coherent noise namespace
by mattr (Curate) on Aug 26, 2001 at 17:54 UTC

I noticed Random number functionality is often put in a subclass under whatever topic it is in. Perhaps the Math:: namespace would be best since it would seem to be the most general. As I understand it, "noise" is a mathematical, or information science (signal processing) notion, whereas as a new noise namespace I'd think about audio noise first. Seems like you want noise more than graphics so I'd say noise::image rather than image::noise.

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