water simulation software

[supagu]

im looking for a program you can feed a height map of some sort for terrain, then get it to simulate ocean waves. It doesnt need to be real time, but needs to spit out height maps of the waves.

any one know of any? of been googling and cant find much :-/

cheers.

[Reedbeta]

I don't know of any software constructed explicitly for this purpose (although there's probably something like that out there). However, a couple articles that you may find interesting:

http://www.gamasutra.com/gdce/2001/jensen/jensen_01.htm
"Realistic Simulation of Curling and Breaking Waves" by Brian Smith; can't seem to find this on the internet anymore, so I posted it on my own website:
http://pages.pomona.edu/~nrr02004/smith2002.pdf

[supagu]

wow, thanks! i like that last link, now youve got me thinking if i can do it real time + the breakers.