Rendering-Ocean-Waves

A project exploring ocean waves rendering techniques in OpenGL

Overview

The project is created by Haimeng Zhang and Xinyu Yang.

It uses C++ to implement a shader for ocean wave texture. The project was developed with macOS systems and basicgraphics library.

Libraries and other tools

• BasicGraphics for abstraction of OpenGL classes, e.g. loading model mesh, texture and shaders
• GLFW for managing windows
• Blender tool for creating the 3D model mesh

References

• Real-time Realistic Ocean Lighting using Seamless Transitions from Geometry to BRDF (Bruneton, 2010)
• On Modeling and Rendering Ocean Scenes (Gonzato & Le Saec)

Details

Basic ocean mesh was downloaded from https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-model/ocean and modified in Blender

Sky box images were downloaded from http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~agk34/resources/textures/sky/?C=S;O=A.

We followed the illumination model of Output color = OceanColor + F * SkyReflection +( Ambient + Diffused)

Results