I Tried Simulating The Entire Ocean

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99% of graphics programmers quit right before a 0.001% increase in performance

I don't understand 95% of the things you say but I always find it fascinating.

It’s kind of ironic how Fourier actually invented his famous formula to predict when/how the tides of the ocean would occur and now in recent times people rediscovered that it could be used to simulate the very same thing it was meant to describe all along Edit: What I meant to say was that one of the very first uses of the Fourier Series was to predict tidal motion (Sir Kelvin was the one who actually did the thing alongside the mechanical integrator! It's a very cool story too! )

It would be cool to have this as a live wallpaper, with the wave parameters slowly changing over time (or perhaps using weather data?) so the ocean looks somewhat different every time you get to see it.

I've gotta hand it to you. You have some of the best shader content anywhere on the internet. It's digestible, entertaining, and informative.

You can apply almost the same FFT for waves for grass blowing in the wind without obvious tiling.

Honestly, 2 things I very recently learned upon doing 3D are just how weak computers are compared to what I had in my mind (which was at the level of "just generate noise in real time and it will take 0.1% of CPU kek") and at the same time just how insanely optimized any game is and how many smart solutions have to be built in order to get gorgeous visuals while maintaining performance!

I think you should continue to use your 1660 to benchmark your projects to prevent the rebound effect on optimization caused by newer and faster hardware

I can't imagine how validating it must be to have your opinion backed by the Oceanographic Literature.

using Jack Quaid as the onscreen representation for Richard Feynman made me laugh harder than it had any right to

I love how all the math I learned in my Physics studies shows up in unexpected places like real time rendering. Never thought I'd hear about the Jacobian outisde of my simulations and modeling course.

It’s so cool seeing these otherwise abstract tools of vector calculus and differential equations I’ve learned about or heard about throughout college in such a creative and artistic context. Never stop!

FFT really is like magic. I spent like two months understanding it a few years ago and now I've completely forgotten

17:15 This image and the line "in truth, this is because our lighting model forgot how light works" Is making me laugh a lot

You're by far the most entertaining resource on how complex shaders and simulations work but you still maintain a very professional quality in results. There are others who make the same kind of content but you have knowledge and skills on par with AAA devs when it comes to what you do.

this is the hardest my minor in applied math has ever had to work, and I'm not even trying to implement it myself yet...at least I actually recognized 90% of the terms you said without having to look them up! amazing video!

i just finished a class on numerical methods a few days ago and already i am getting flashbacks also the way you "removed" tiling at the end was really impressive

I can not thank you enough for your contributions to the Unity shader coding scene. I have been wanting to add more water/flooded areas to my game, but have been avoiding it due to the performance impact/obvious tiling issues that existing water simulations on the marketplace have.

its insane how much better it looks while also improving the performance as a music producer its really interesting to me how working in the frequency domain is so much better than the time domain as when working with music you have to sample the waveform in time before you can start working in frequency, so i would have initially assumed the exact opposite. thinking about it now though, it definitely makes sense why its so powerful since any conceivable wave can be represented by a set of frequencies and phases i'd love to see more like this, its really interesting to see how waves can be used in graphics and not just audio