Free Water Caustics Animated Textures

[Dr. Goulu]

if you want to render realistic water surfaces, this page might be useful to you :
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/PeriodicCaustics/index.html

especially the 8 sets of 32 512x512 periodic textures at the bottom, which let you create animated textures like this one:

[JeGX]

cool find 
I'm going to code a small Demoniak3D demo with them (read: add this stuff in my overloaded todolist  )

[shadow]

I'm going to code a small Demoniak3D demo with them

I read the article on Dr Goulu's blog today, and I had the same thought ! 

[JeGX]

The demo is done: http://www.ozone3d.net/smf/index.php/topic,1204.0.html 

and for our french-capable readers: http://www.ozone3d.net/blogs/demoniak3d/?p=69 

[xfurtif]

Un générateur de caustics là :

Caustics Generator v1.4

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/CausticsGenerator_v1.4.zip

[JeGX]

cool merci pour ce lien. Je vais le tester.

[akira_fmx]

I just Googled water caustic texture and found this wonderful post! Thanks for sharing. I will use this in my WebGL project:
http://aleksandarrodic.com/p/jellyfish/

Cheers!

[JeGX]

Caustic demo updated for GeeXLab available in the code sample pack:
http://www.geeks3d.com/20110201/demotool-geexlab-0-2-10-released-new-lua-demos/