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title: "Sample Noise"
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description: "This page describes the Sample Noise node of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. It evaluates noise patterns at freely defined input positions — …"
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# Sample Noise

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
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> This page describes the **Sample Noise node** of the Scene Nodes system in **Cinema 4D**. It evaluates noise patterns at freely defined input positions — controllable procedural randomness for geometry, distributions and animation.

Similar to the [Noise](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/MAINNOISE_6E58B427_DB09_4771_87E4_7B069FB9CD1F.html.md) Material Node, this Node also generates patterns. However, with this Node you can use an input vector to define the position at which a value should be computed by the noise generator. This offers additional control and variation of an otherwise static noise pattern.