In article <3c6b3927@news.povray.org>, "Kevin Loney" <klo### [at] pt2mcom> 
wrote:

> Just trying to get a remotly realistic wood and water texture. I plan on
> adding some ripples to the bottom of the post where it touches the water.
> 
> comments? suggestions?

For the water: use a completely transparent texture (rgbf 1), and let 
absorbing media (or fade_color) and reflections do the coloration...this 
is the technique I use for nearly any transparent colored material.
Probably most important: use fresnel variable reflection. Don't forget 
the ior, of course, you will find some useful iors in consts.inc. There 
are many possible ways to do the actual ripples, a simple isosurface 
will be most realistic but relatively slow, or you could use a cylinder 
with a normal, or a height field clipped with a cylinder.

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