This ROF video is very nice indeed and a good step toward better immersion. some aspects of the cloud shapes are not bad either (but we see only cumuli here).
There is however something entirely missing and wich will have to be the next step: the cloud shapes (especially cumuli like those) evolves relatively fast, along a growth/maturation/death pattern very obvious in accelerated time...this is due to the other missing factor that cumuli clouds appearance is ground related; a cumulus will appear more or less in the same place (as its birth is due to local temperature contrasts), will grow, change shape, and decrease a bit and disappear, all that being transported by the wind.
Higher order phenomena can occur where the instability is such that the cumuli are growing very much and glue themselves together to form first a bigger cumulus or even a cumulonimbus...In the latter case, all smaller cumuli close to the CB tend to disappear.
I agree this is a nice first step, but much is left to do to obtain something life-like...It would still need quite a lot of CPU power, and probably too much for today, but the way is paved!
JVM
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10-24-2010, 12:12 PM
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