aaOcean is an implementation of Jerry Tessendorf's 2004 paper on Simulating Ocean Waves. Author: Amaan Akram www.linkedin.com/in/amaan First implemented in 2008 for Softimage XSI

FEATURES

• Novel FFT spectrum sampling ensures that the resulting ocean shape is only enhanced by increasing ocean resolution, and not completely changed
• Multi-threaded via OpenMP
• OpenEXR output for object-space vector displacement

aaOcean uses, sightings, references and derivative works

• Ships with Renderman
• Referenced in "Empirical directional wave spectra for computer graphics" by Christopher J. Horvath
• Derivates made available by 3rd parties for Cinema 4D and Foundry's Modo

Example of work done with aaOcean: https://vimeo.com/42087457

This repository contains the following

• aaOcean core class
• aaOcean Mental Ray shader
• Softimage Shader Definitions for Mental Ray shaders
• aaOcean Arnold shader
• aaOcean Prman 19+ RIS displacement shader
• aaOcean Softimage ICE deformer
• aaOcean Maya Deformer
• aaOcean Houdini SOP
• aaOcean standalong terminal/shell application
• several helper functions that I often use

Acknowledgements for help and bug fixes: Frederic Servant, Fabrice Macagno, Andrew Helmer, The Softimage XSI Community, Renderman community

LICENSE: aaOcean is covered by a GNU GPL v3 license, unless another license is specifically granted by Amaan Akram. A "New BSD" License for aaOcean can be obtained by contacting the author For more details on aaOcean and associated 3rd Party licenses, please see "license.txt" file