POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : breaking waves : Re: breaking waves Server Time
11 Aug 2024 07:13:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: breaking waves  
From: JRG
Date: 29 May 2004 14:16:05
Message: <40b8d365@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
> 

Very nice indeed... but I can't find the link to the animation...

--
Jonathan.


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