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JCGT – Arc Blanc: a real time ocean simulation

by speps on 3/5/25, 4:04 PM with 5 comments

• by waterthrowaway on 3/5/25, 5:48 PM

  This is really cool! Thank you for submitting it!

  It is worth noting this is for the purpose of video games or visual effects not for scientific/operational simulations of the ocean.

  Daily operational wave forecasts are available from NOAA's WaveWatch3 model here https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/ . These data products are wildly used by a variety of services including surf forecasts.

  NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory also publishes nice graphics of the WaveWatch3 forecast for the great lakes https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/emf/waves/WW3/

  EDIT: So many interesting scales of wave research too!

  Here is a very small scale study: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

• by sitkack on 3/5/25, 4:54 PM

  This is super cool, if you want to watch the videos, they are linked from the wayback page.

  https://web.archive.org/web/20250305164452/https://jcgt.org/...

• by epinzur on 3/5/25, 5:56 PM

  this is super neat. Is there any code available with the paper?