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Posted: **Fri Sep 19, 2025 12:06 am**

For demonstration of the issue I used noise expression

if(x >= 320 & x < 512 & y >= 128 & y < 320,
  voronoi_spot_noise{x = x, y = y, seed0 = 241014965, seed1 = 0, grid_size = 64, distance_type = 1, jitter = 1},
0)

(3x3 grid squares of voronoi spot noise on a fixed seed). It was visualized with noise tools using

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noise_debug.tiles_to_visualisation("visualisation", 0, 2, "greyscale")

Here's the result of the visualization:

: noise_raw.png (5.1 KiB) Viewed 186 times

The problem can be seen at the bottom of the top middle square, marked with the green arrow

: noise_annotated.png (19.18 KiB) Viewed 186 times

For these points only the points generated in the same and the neighbor squares are checked for being the nearest (the ones marked with yellow arrows, plus 3 squares above that aren't relevant here). Because they are all in the far corners, the actual nearest point is the one marked by the red arrow, which is two squares below. But it doesn't get checked, as can be seen from both gradient of the expression and the jump in the value at the border of the square (the horizontal line just below green arrow).

The same exact problem seems to affect all types of voronoi noise functions.

Posted: **Fri Sep 19, 2025 6:08 pm**

Here's probably a better visualization.

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abs(
    voronoi_spot_noise{x = x, y = y, seed0 = 241014965, seed1 = 0, grid_size = 64, distance_type = 1, jitter = 1} -
    voronoi_spot_noise{x = x, y = y + 1, seed0 = 241014965, seed1 = 0, grid_size = 64, distance_type = 1, jitter = 1}
) * 64

Because of triangle inequality, any shift by 1 tile should change the value of voronoi_spot_noise by at most 1/grid_size, so this expression should be all in range [0,1]. But it's not:

: voronoi_gradient.png (10.67 KiB) Viewed 111 times

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