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10 Aug 2024 11:23:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Accurate water?  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 23 Dec 1999 21:12:29
Message: <3862D693.919A00F6@mailbag.com>
Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
> Dunno if this has been asked before, but...
> 
> Does anyone out there know if POV-Ray is capable of producing
> mathematically accurate water? With the stuff in the MegaPatch, there
> would seem to be enough tricks to do it (with the exception of some
> better "wave" normals, but an isosurface might be better for that
> anyway.. I don't know), but I don't know if there's something missing,
> or what the numbers would be.

How are you defining "mathematically accurate water"? Rolling waves?
Crashing waves? Caustics? Godrays? Fluid dynamics?

-Mark Gordon


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