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