#ANIMATED OCEAN WAVES SOFTWARE#
By using these software programs, teachers can enhance their instruction of these topics with colorful visualizations and animation without requiring an extensive background in computer programming. The programs are user-friendly, interactive, easy to modify, and developed as instructional tools.
These programs also set the stage for the more advanced and difficult animation topics in Part 2. In this article, several MATLAB ® software programs have been written to visualize and animate development and comparison of wave spectra, wave interference, and forecasting of sea conditions. Computer-aided visualization and animation, accompanied by oral explanation, are a welcome pedagogical supplement to more traditional methods of instruction. The problem is, I need it to be visible to horizon and interacting with rock cliffs in the foreground of my scene. Hi everybody, Im trying to find a way to create a big animated water surface (say, an ocean) with waves and foam. This paper, Part 1, addresses forecasting of sea wave conditions and serves as the basis for the more difficult topic of swell wave forecasting addressed in Part 2. Author Topic: Animated ocean + waves (Read 1694 times), 15:08:41. A two-part article series is offered to explain ocean wave forecasting using computer-generated visualization and animation. Computer-generated visualization and animation offer a visually intuitive and pedagogically sound medium to present geoscience, yet there are very few oceanographic examples.
Verbal descriptions and two-dimensional illustrations are often insufficient for student comprehension. Unfortunately, undergraduate study of ocean wave dynamics and forecasting involves mathematics and physics and therefore can pose difficulties with some students because of the subject's interrelated dependence on time and space. Ocean waves are the most recognized phenomena in oceanography.