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<feTurbulence>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The <feTurbulence> SVG filter primitive creates an image using the Perlin turbulence function. It allows the synthesis of artificial textures like clouds or marble. The resulting image will fill the entire filter primitive subregion.

Like other filter primitives, it handles color components in the linearRGB color space by default. You can use color-interpolation-filters to use sRGB instead.

Usage context

Categories Filter primitive element
Permitted content Any number of the following elements, in any order:
<animate>, <discard>, <set>

Attributes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGFETurbulenceElement interface.

Example

<svg
  width="200"
  height="200"
  viewBox="0 0 220 220"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <filter id="displacementFilter">
    <feTurbulence
      type="turbulence"
      baseFrequency="0.05"
      numOctaves="2"
      result="turbulence" />
    <feDisplacementMap
      in2="turbulence"
      in="SourceGraphic"
      scale="50"
      xChannelSelector="R"
      yChannelSelector="G" />
  </filter>

  <circle cx="100" cy="100" r="100" filter="url(#displacementFilter)" />
</svg>

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
feTurbulence 5
12Partially supported, see bug 12382004.
3 9 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
baseFrequency 5
12Partially supported, see bug 12382004.
3 9 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
numOctaves 5 79 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
seed 5
12Partially supported, see bug 12382004.
3 9 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
stitchTiles 5 79 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
type 5 79 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/feTurbulence