[bee_rider]

It looks really good.

Out of curiosity, I’m sure everybody has heard of the FFT. They are quite general and used all over the place, and I imagine they’d be the first thing somebody would reach for if they had to describe waves.

But I’d never heard of Gerstner waves. This leads me to believe that Gerstner waves are a more specialized thing. Since lots of work has already gone into rendering water, I tend to assume the method with a name I’ve never heard of was only reached for after very clever people rejected Fourier transforms for some reason.

But, the results look better than most of what I see elsewhere. Has something changed to enable the more conventional solution?

[teamonkey]

Gerstner Waves are less computationally-expensive than FFT-based waves and are comparatively easy to understand and implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochoidal_wave