"Eriban" <pov### [at] spamgourmetcom> schreef in bericht 
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> I hope it is all sufficiently self-explanatory. One thing to keep in mind 
> is
> that although I looked at several images of wakes, read written material 
> about
> it and closely watched ducks swim before creating this code, in the end 
> the
> formulas are not based on real-world physics. They're just functions that 
> can
> produce something that is visually close to actual wake waves. Functions 
> that
> can be tweaked to produce an assymetrical wake as well. If you dive into 
> the
> code, you'll probably see that the waves are constructed in a bottom-up
> fashion, which hopefully helps you to understand what is happening.
>
Ok. Thanks for your additional explanations. I don't need exact replication, 
make-believe is enough and I think that your code is doing that very well.

Swimming ducks indeed. I have been watching them too in that context :-)

Thomas

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