Adding Noise track

content/tracks/side-tracks/noise/index.json

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+{
+  "title": "Noise Track",
+  "description": "The track contains my tutorials on perlin and simplex noise.",
+  "videos": [
+    "noc/perlin/graphing-1d-perlin-noise",
+    "noc/perlin/intro-to-perlin-noise",
+    "noc/perlin/noise-vs-random",
+    "open-simplex-noise",
+    "challenges/136-polar-noise-loops",
+    "challenges/137-4d-opensimplex-noise-loop",
+    "challenges/c4-worley-noise"
+  ]
+}

content/videos/noc/perlin/graphing-1d-perlin-noise/index.json

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   "languages": ["JavaScript", "p5.js"],
   "topics": ["For beginners"],
   "videoId": "y7sgcFhk6ZM",
+  "canonicalTrack": "the-nature-of-code-2",
   "timestamps": [
     { "time": "0:00", "title": "What are we doing?" },
     { "time": "1:20", "title": "Why are the x and y values equal?" },

content/videos/noc/perlin/intro-to-perlin-noise/index.json

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   "topics": ["For beginners"],
   "videoId": "Qf4dIN99e2w",
   "canContribute": false,
+  "canonicalTrack": "the-nature-of-code-2",
   "timestamps": [
     { "time": "0:00", "title": "Welcome!" },
     { "time": "0:45", "title": "Random() and noise()" },

content/videos/noc/perlin/noise-vs-random/index.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "languages": ["JavaScript", "p5.js"],
   "topics": ["For beginners"],
   "videoId": "YcdldZ1E9gU",
+  "canonicalTrack": "the-nature-of-code-2",
   "timestamps": [
     { "time": "0:00", "title": "Introduction" },
     { "time": "0:50", "title": "Random function" },

content/videos/open-simplex-noise/index.json

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+{
+  "title": "What is OpenSimplex Noise?",
+  "description": "Simplex Noise (2001) is an improvement on \"classic\" Perlin noise (1983). I discuss a bit of the history of noise algorithms and show how to use the Java source code for Open Simplex Noise in Processing.",
+  "languages": ["Processng"],
+  "topics": ["For beginners"],
+  "videoId": "Lv9gyZZJPE0",
+  "canContribute": true,
+  "relatedChallenges": ["136-polar-noise-loops", "137-4d-opensimplex-noise-loop", "c4-worley-noise"],
+  "timestamps": [
+    { "time": "0:00", "title": "Welcome!" },
+    { "time": "1:19", "title": "Perlin noise" },
+    { "time": "3:11", "title": "Directional artifacts" },
+    { "time": "3:54", "title": "Simplectic geometry" },
+    { "time": "6:17", "title": "Open simplex noise" },
+    { "time": "7:40", "title": "Update the processing sketch" },
+    { "time": "12:00", "title": "Create an open simplex noise object" },
+    { "time": "13:09", "title": "Eval function" },
+    { "time": "14:00", "title": "Cast result to a float" },
+    { "time": "15:09", "title": "Map the noise to the range of color values" },
+    { "time": "15:52", "title": "Change the parameters to get different visual effects" },
+    { "time": "17:16", "title": "Outro" }
+  ],
+  "codeExamples": [],
+  "groupLinks": [
+    {
+      "title": "References",
+      "links": [
+         {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Perlin Noise",
+          "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160530124230/http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm",
+          "description": "Archived article about perlin noise."
+        },
+         {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "OpenSimplex2",
+          "url": "https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2/blob/master/_old/java/legacy/OpenSimplex.java",
+          "description": "Github repo with legacy OpenSimplex code used in tutorial."
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "OpenSimplex2",
+          "url": "https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2",
+          "description": "Github repo with open source OpenSimplex noise code."
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Perlin Noise",
+          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise",
+          "description": "Wikipedia page describing perlin noise"
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Gradient Noise",
+          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_noise",
+           "description": "Wikipedia page describing gradient noise"
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Simplex Noise",
+          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise",
+           "description": "Wikipedia page describing simplex noise"
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Simplex Noise Demystified",
+          "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216813608_Simplex_noise_demystified",
+           "description": "Paper by Stefan Gustavson discussing simplex noise"
+        },
+        {
+          "icon": "🔗",
+          "title": "Etienne Jacob",
+          "url": "https://bleuje.github.io/",
+           "description": "Etienne Jacob website"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "credits": [
+    { "title": "Editing", "name": "Mathieu Blanchette" },
+    { "title": "Animations", "name": "Jason Heglund" }
+  ],
+  "date": "2019-03-04"
+}