[Etherlord87]

What sad times do we live in, that you need to defensively remark you're not making a criticism as if criticism was bad?

I found a video that records (in a few places) how the waves actually look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBO-hen7_s

Maybe you can adjust the parameters of the tool to get waves like this, or perhaps I still should care even if the solution isn't realistic, and getting such an effect is hard by just using an arbitrary formula. In particular getting the detail right, but I imagine the recorded video is heavily subdivided and takes most of the resources that you just can't spend on a real video game.

It's still impressive, but I can't help but wonder why the formal maths if you don't arrive at anything realistic - perhaps because I'm a layman and I don't understand the difficulties of achieving this.