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water links

Here you can find a collection of links to various resources where you can obtain more detailed information on different aspects related to water.

These links lead to external resources. I am not responsible for their content, they are just meant to show things I found interesting.

other POV-Ray related resources on water

Realistic Water with POVRAY    by Friedrich A. Lohmüller
  POV-Ray 3.1 based water tutorial with emphazis waves modeling with normals.
  http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/backgrnd/p_wat1.htm


Realistic Water with WyzPOV 3.1    by Michael Paul
  About using variable reflection for water by the author of the original variable reflection patch.
  http://www.lehigh.edu/~mbp2/wyzpov/water.html


reflection basics

Fresnell's Equations: Reflection and Transmission    by R Nave
  information on the fresnel equations including a reflection coefficient calculator.
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/freseq.html


The Fresnel Reflection Coefficients    by D. J. De Smet
  on fresnel reflection.
  http://www.uronramp.net/~ddesmet/bk/part3/part3a.html


External Reflection from a Water Surface    by ReefNet Software
  About reflection on water surfaces.
  http://www.reefnet.on.ca/gearbag/wwwatw.html


Fresnel Reflection Coefficients    by Alex R. Dzierba
  on fresnel reflection.
  http://dustbunny.physics.indiana.edu/~dzierba/P360n/KPAD/Exps/Fresnel/fresnelnote.pdf


related physical effects in general

Rendering Natural Waters    by Simon Premoze and Michael Ashikhmin
  About diverse aspects of rendering realistic water.
  http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/papers/water/


Meteorology Guide    by University of Illinois
  general information on atmospheric phenomena including light and optics.
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml


HyperPhysics Concepts    by R Nave
  collection of material on light and optics under physical aspects.
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ligcon.html


Optical Absorption of Water Compendium    by Scott Prahl
  list of resources on absorption of water
  http://omlc.ogi.edu/spectra/water/abs/index.html


Oceanography: Ocean Water    by Office of Naval Research
  Easy to understand information about ocean water and its characteristics
  http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/


Ocean 590 Abstracts    by School of Oceanography
  Abstracts of various lectures on different topics of optical oceanography
  http://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/oc590/abstracts_framed.html


Hydrologic Optics    by Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
  About measuring and analyzing optical properties of water
  http://www.serc.si.edu/water_quality/water_quality_html/hydrops.htm


the index of refraction and other material properties

Online material database    by TU Delft
  Properties of various material including optical aspects.
  http://www.io.tudelft.nl/research/dfs/idemat/index.htm


Salinity Data    by National Oceanographic Data Center
  Properties of various material including optical aspects.
  http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/salinity.html


Luxpop    by Guillaume Boisset
  For index of refraction values and other photonics calculations.
  http://www.luxpop.com/


Index of Refraction of Water    by ReefNet Software
  Some information on the different factors influencing the index of refraction of water.
  http://www.reefnet.on.ca/gearbag/wwwh2o.html


water surface geometry

Erweiterung und Verbesserung eines strahlenphysikalischen Ansatzes zur Simulierung der Globalstrahlung und ihre Anwendung bei der Visualisierung windbewegter Wasseroberflächen (german)     
  aper on visualizing water surfaces
  http://www.first.gmd.de/persons/bwalter/html/report/report.html


photons

Henrik Wann Jensen's Publications    by Henrik Wann Jensen
  Publications of Henrik Wann Jensen, the inventor of photon mapping
  http://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/papers/


Photons    by Nathan Kopp
  Information about the POV-Ray photon patch
  http://nathan.kopp.com/photons.htm


Simulating Reflective and Refractive Caustics in POV-Ray Using a Photon Map    by Nathan Kopp
  detailed paper about the photon patch
  http://nathan.kopp.com/nk_pov_photons.zip


Rendering with Photon Maps    by Roland Schregle
  presentation and implementation of photon mapping
  http://www.cg.cs.tu-bs.de/PubArc/dipl/schregle98_dipl.pdf


Effiziente Photonmap-Techniken (german)    by Stefan Maaß
  Introduction and improvement of photon mapping
  http://www.cg.cs.tu-bs.de/PubArc/dipl/maass2001_dipl.pdf