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

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