Re: Waves.

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Anita Kishore (kishore++at++triavest.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:53:00 -0700

On Jul 3, 8:51am, Peter Plachta wrote:
> Subject: Waves.
>
> Hi
>
> I work at DCIEM (a defence/civil reaserach facility in Toronto). We are
> working on a ship simulator, and are currently modelling the ocean.
> I was wondering if anybody knows a way to animate waves in performer. I
> have an article (SIGGRAPH, 1986, vol. 20, no. 4) which explains the
> dynamics and explains (well, sort of) how to do it using ray tracing, but
> that's way to slow. I've tried moving blue cylinders/spheres/etc. through
> a blue sheet, but it just doesn't look realistic.
>

How about using 3D texture for the ocean and animating its texture coordinates?
Don't know how it works in Performer. Just a thought.

-anita

kishore++at++triavest.com

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