Artic Waterfall

[Dune]

This is what I was doing yesterday. Took a loooong time to render, due to the two water+reflective shaders. Completely procedural except for the gulls of course. The foam may be a little rougher, but I probably won't render this one again. Now I'm working on a glacier.

[FrankB]

very cool! I find the fact amazing that it's all procedural

I wouldn't render this twice either - too impatient

[Zairyn Arsyn]

the waterfall looks frozen, looks good though

[cyphyr]

Very good, I like how the noisey "foam" layer works, sometimes less samples is better. I guess the waterfall is a distorted plane?
I can also see how this would be a render hog.
Richard

[Henry Blewer]

Very beautiful.

[Kevin F]

I'd go with Zaai999 that it looks frozen, but beautiful non the less. Love the splashes which could be bigger?
If your doing a glacier next it would be really cool (get it!) if you could make use of the icy water technique that I tweaked from an idea by Hetzen a while back.

[jbest]

How much is a looooong time?  

This looks really very nice. I could understand why it would take so long to render. I think it would look a little more real if the waterfall didn't look so glassy, but of course this is an "Arctic Waterfall."

[Seth]

nice job !

[dandelO]

Pushing the boundaries, once again. Very nice!

I think, with all these 'impossible' renders and methods that have been banged-out in here these past few months and, if we all put our heads together and worked on it, that we could make a whole new World to live in with TG. Better than this broken one we have now, anyway.
Now, where's that bread and milk shader?

Cool, man!

[choronr]

The waterfall and foam are great; and, that overhang with its vertical striations is very interesting.

[Dune]

@ Richard: indeed, part of the whole sea that's pushed up and aside, by using a simple shape, twist/shear and a distribution shader (and such).
@ KevinF: I'll keep that one in mind.
@ jbest: 5 hours or so @ 0.5 and 5AA The fall is indeed too glassy. Actually it's too big to be glassy, but you sometimes have these thin and fine waterfalls, which are very transparent. I might use this technique for such a fall.