POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.scene-files : How to produce Water or ripples? : Re: How to produce Water or ripples? Server Time
28 May 2024 19:52:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to produce Water or ripples?  
From: Matt Giuer
Date: 25 Apr 1999 21:42:00
Message: <3723B662.34190367@ij.net>
Dominik Herrmann wrote:
> 
> I have a question to all those POV-Ray-Cracks:
> I'd like to render a scene which contains a lake. My problem is I have no
> idea how to produce natural looking waves. Has anyone ideas how to do? With
> heightfields or the ripples pattern?

Both work but what do you mean by realistic? Waves near shore are
different than far out and conform to the shoreline. If that is
the problem, that is almost undoable. 

Undoable is a standard form of challenge so that someone will do
it.


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