In article <3996EA8E.B10FE5E5@vrml.k12.la.us>, Abe Heckenbach 
<abe### [at] vrmlk12laus> wrote:

> Why couldn't pov do that??(just speed factors??)
> 
> sorry if this seems stupid, but i'm kinda new to pov,

POV could probably render it just fine, given the correct data, though 
it would probably take years to render enough frames to make a movie. 
It's generating that data which is the problem, wave simulation is not 
easy, even for small waves. Large, ocean waves are much worse. They 
probably used some particle systems, hand editing, some way of 
simulating the movement and shapes of the waves themselves, and huge 
render farms with scan-line rendering software to get the film done.

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