Isolated rendering experiment

Flow water, on a real sphere

The /island colour/depth pipeline, native Aureole lighting, animated normal maps, refraction, SSR and contact foam on sphere geometry. Drag to orbit; scroll to cross from shoreline scale to the whole planet.

Render architecture
Opaque colour/depth · sampled refraction · SSR · radial contact foam
Planet time
radial-depth foam refractive water opaque islands