caustics

[gnurf]

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

-Paul

[gnurf]

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

-Paul

[gnurf]

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

-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

[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.

[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]

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

[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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[Christine Farrelly]

Thank you Paul, these things always seem so obvious once your shown how they are done.

That idea of reversing the plasma fill is brilliant.

variations on your technique can produce some amazing textures.

Christine