caustics

[gnurf]

I was playing around with profiles and transparencies, and I found out the following technique of making waves in water

-Paul

[houseofman]

I was impressed at the effect you created Paul but the shading appears different in the mini-tut and not as lifelike your original. To me it almost appears that the blue shade is on the wrong side of the ripples?... or is it just my eyes? Nice job though - Thank you, I'll keep practicing.
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Phillip

[gwpriester]

The circular ripples are pretty terrific, Paul.

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[gnurf]

Here's the simple way of making ripples, only three objects needed!

In step four you cannot of course see the transparency because I used a white rectangle on a white background (silly me), but as the text say: use a linear transparency with 20% start transparency at top and 100% end transparency at bottom of the rectangle.

-Paul

[roman]

I think it's done using fractal fill, and profiled repeating transparency, but when I was testing it I wasn't patient enough to achieve this quality. It seems you also shaded the whole image with one more transparency. Mhm. Minitut would be definitely appreciated. Really great idea Paul.

[Christine Farrelly]

Paul please post a description of how you achieved this. I am sure a lot of users would like to know.

Christine

[gnurf]

...and of course rings on water can be useful too

-Paul

[gnurf]

I was playing around with profiles and transparencies, and I found out the following technique of making waves in water

-Paul

[gnurf]

Phillip - Now when I look at the original image and the tutorial, I see that the shadow of the ripple is indeed on the other side. I guess this is due that I have the direction otherway around in the original, so that should be easily fixed for you.
The blue shading of the water is the same, but the plasma pattern is smaller in the original (or then it just looks bigger in the tutorial because I had to make the images smaller), resulting in dark blue colour appearing more.

-Paul

[roman]

So that doest the trick, the different direction of plasma fill... not only shading. Nice. Thanx for sharing.