Um?

I'm not sure its wrong. I think you have chosen a starting point that is
very unlikely. I think the block and the side form a sort of channel. It
looks like you have started with water up the side of the block. This is a
bit strange. Channels usually have waves going up and down them and not all
the water piled up on one bank.

I think if you chose a better starting point it would be better. Perhaps
take one of the surfaces later in the render where the problem has died down
and feed it back in as a starting point multiplied up a bit.

You will probably get similar funny effects if you start with the water in a
cube shape and just "let it go".


Ta BB.
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"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3eb78ed6@news.povray.org...
> So, I had mentioned releasing the Liquid-Surface-System
> to the WWW this weekend, but stumbled upon a little
> unpleasing artifact which may occur in tight corners,
> especially when the wave is created there, e.g. using
> the Stomp-Macro, which places a wave around all objects
> interacting with the water.
>
> Anyways, as you can see in the edge at the red box, there
> is some weird jiggling going on, and I'm working on the
> dampening and internal multiplying parts (which take
> care of dissipation of waves and retaining the hills) to
> work slightly different dependant on amount of neighbour-
> nodes.
>
> Anyways, this animation isn't to show off any features or
> such, its an excuse why its taking so long... :-)
>
> I was thinking about adding an algorithm which checks
> if there is a checker-like pattern (all horizontal and vertical
> neighbours are of a much different height than the one in
> question) and adjusts the height of the center node to a
> certain degree. This would add a whole new loop, because
> I'd have to do this after the step has been generated completely,
> and needs to take dead and rim nodes into account, which
> implies that I'd have to put a larger effort into that, then a
> next bug-testing phase... Would result in at least another two
> or three weeks of programming. Well, I'm thinking about an
> easier solution right now, and hope to get something useful
> till the weekend. Sorry for the delay!
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
>
>

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