[Bf-python] Noise Module Proposal

[Campbell Barton]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Hale <trumanblending at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that the current noise module has become rather outdated with
> respect to the current API. As such I propose to update it to bring it into
> line with rest of the API. The changes I propose are listed below;
>
> Move the module so it becomes a submodule of mathutils, i.e.
> mathutils.noise. This will make the module more visible and more useful as
> we can return mathutils types like Vectors.
> Change input arguments from (x, y, z) tuples to Vector objects.
> Change function outputs from (x, y, z) tuples to Vector objects.
> Fix noise.random_unit_vector(), current the y and z components are
> correlated (bad).
> Add noise.random_vector() to produce a random vector (non-unit length)
> Add other functions (Feel free to reply with ideas)
>
> I have discussed this with ideasman_42 on IRC and he seemed in agreement. If
> you have any thoughts please reply.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew

+1,

- we could keep the 'noise' module available to be imported directly
for a release but deprecate it (even print some warning on importing).

- probably nice to keep 'noise' being available from the driver
namespace even when its moved to mathutils.noise