"Tim Nikias v2.0" wrote:
> 
> I've got a question about your implemenations of
> Hugo Elias' description for water. I'm trying it myself,
> so I've got the array x*y and save the heights as
> floats, later converting it to positions.
> 
> But, when I just raise a single point, I get a stupid
> kind of criss-cross effect: One node will stick
> out, and the adjacent won't. I know that this is
> supposed to happen on the first step of raising
> a point, but how do I get rid of this? How did
> you achieve that, surely you've run into the same
> kind of trouble?

Like Rune i don't precisely remember how i implemented this but IIRC the
algorithm involves an averaging/smoothing step - this can be varied quite
easily.  

You will also have to experiment with the disturbance of the surface - the
size and form of this much influences the resulting waves.

Christoph

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