POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : breaking waves : Re: breaking waves Server Time
13 Nov 2024 17:45:43 EST (-0500)
  Re: breaking waves  
From: stephen parkinson
Date: 27 May 2004 14:20:09
Message: <40b63159$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> After Marc Jacquier's impressive lighthouse images i also tried some new 
> things concerning breaking waves, here are the results:
> 
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/pov/water/waves_tst.html
> 
> To get the foam look right is quite difficult, the structure of a real 
> wave is quite complicated when you have a close look.  And to keep the 
> render time reasonable (5-10 hours for these tests without radiosity) i 
> did not use scattering media so it probably looks much too 'glassy'.
> 
> There is surely a lot of room for tweaks, especially directly at the 
> water line but every additional feature slows down the whole render...
> 
> Christoph
> 

number 2.
why, no idea, just looks real

maybe whitefoam is shade less peaky ??

stephen


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