Waves with momentum
A damped wave equation carries each splash across the pool, where crests and troughs spread, overlap, and follow the duck's gentle wake without changing the pool's total water volume.
EXPERIMENT 001 · PHYSICS & GRAPHICS
Water,
in motion.
A small study of light and moving water. Drop a ripple, push the floating sphere, change the wind, and watch a little duck paddle around the pool.
Interactive water simulation
LIVE SIMULATION3D INTERACTIVE POOL
Pick up and drop the sphere, or tap the water to make a ripple
CALMBREEZY
UNDER THE SURFACE
A little physics.
A lot of light.
Ripples you can make
Push the floating sphere, watch the duck paddle, or drop a stone to send waves across the pool. Wind feeds in smaller disturbances between splashes.
Reflections that move
Moving wave normals bend bright highlights across the reflective surface, revealing the pool tiles underneath.
This is a real-time surface-wave approximation, not a full fluid or ray-tracing simulation. Disturbances are balanced against surrounding troughs so the pool's mean water level stays constant. It is a work in progress—part physics experiment, part rendering study.