Water-wave animation on mesh surfaces

The development of an efficient and stable algorithm for animating water-wave on mesh surface of 3D models, is discussed. The simulation of ripples on the surface of a 3D mesh model is done to generate an animation of water waves with special effects. A sinusoidal wave model is used to produce a realistic water wave animation in which the amplitudes of water waves are attenuated along with the propagation. The uses of local scheme and excitations at any time during the animation accelerate the simulation, that helps to simulate other objects falling into the water surface. A geodesic distance map is used to animate on 3D mesh surface, giving the geodesic distance from every surface point to the source. The introduction of superposition method for simulating multiple waves helps to demonstrate our approach on several mesh models with complex geometry. Water wave is a combination of longitudinal and transverse movements, that depend on the efficient evaluation of geodesic distance.