Low-Discrepancy Blue Noise Sampling

Super fast Low-discrepancy + Blue noise 2D sampler.

Single C++ header with no dependencies to generate 2D point sets which have both low discrepancy and Blue-Noise properties. This code is a c++ refactoring of the implementation given by the following paper (Project page):

Low-Discrepancy Blue Noise Sampling.
Abdalla G.M. Ahmed, Hélène Perrier, David Coeurjolly, Victor Ostromoukhov, Jianwei Guo, Dong-Ming Yan, Hui HUANG, Oliver Deussen.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 35(6), 2016.

The current code can generate point sets for the Blue-noise and Step target spectra in a very efficient way (~2.14ms for 1M points! , cf the paper for more details).

License

/*
 * Reference-matching code for LDBN in the paper:
 *      Ahmed, Perrier, Coeurjolly, Ostromoukhov, Guo, Yan, Huang, and Deussen
 *      Low-Discrepancy Blue Noise Sampling
 *      SIGGRAPH Asia 2016
 *
 * Coded by Abdalla G. M. Ahmed, 2016-09-19.
 * Copyright (c) 2016, Abdalla G. M. Ahmed
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 *
 * Refactoring by David Coeurjolly 2018-11-22
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