Chapter 18. Simulating the Ocean with Fast Fourier Transform
By Benedict R. Gaster,Brian Sumner,and Justin Hensley
Ocean is an OpenCL demonstration application developed at AMD that simulates the surface of the ocean in real time using an approach developed by Jerry Tessendorf1 that makes use of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). This same approach has been used in a number of feature films such as Waterworld, Titanic, and Fifth Element and has also appeared in modified form in real-time games. Briefly, the fast Fourier transform is applied to random noise, generated using the Phillips spectrum that evolves over time as a frequency-dependent phase shift. In this chapter we describe our implementation of Tessendorf’s approach and its application ...
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