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5 Sep 2024 18:56:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ocean coming up to the beach.  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 13 Aug 1999 01:20:07
Message: <37b3ab07@news.povray.org>
Todd Chaffee wrote in message <37b37c92@news.povray.org>...
>I've been trying to create a scene with the ocean water coming up to a
sandy
>beach.  The ocean water needs to be transparent so you can see the ocean
>floor continuing under the water.  My first attempt with planes and texture
>maps looked pretty funny since the planes intersected in a straight line.


Try using a height field for either the beach or the water.  If you are
using the SuperPatch, you could use the ripples pattern for a pigment-based
heightfield.

Mark


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