Open Simplex Noise

So, I was on the hunt for a simpler way to make cool looped animations and stumbled upon this thing called 4D Simplex Noise. I found a super helpful tutorial on necessarydisorder’s WordPress page called Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there. It was really informative, got me inspired, and had a spot-on title.

I took what I learned from my past projects and created a 2D grid of pixel objects, animating them by linking their movement to the noise function. When I used lower scales (0.001), the motion turned out super smooth and organic, giving me some awesome visual effects.