Software Simulation of Water Surface Optical Glitter
Aret茅 Associates
1997鈥�98
The clinic team investigated and developed models for the reflection of the sun off the ocean’s surface to create an improved 鈥毭劽篻litter鈥毭劽� routine for Arete Associates’ RenderWorld, their software package for modeling natural scenes. Current software techniques do not allow for efficient simulations of light reflection off small-scale water waves (referred to as glitter) because it is too computationally intensive. The team developed a software implementation of its recommended solution to Arete Associates. Images generated using the RenderWorld’s package will be shown.
Advisor(s): Gregory A. Lyzenga.