I would like to create a scene with a ripple, like when a drop of rain hits water, but I can't seem to come up with anything all that cool, I would like to use a latice to do it, but I don't know, I would like the ripple to have troughs as well as crests, but I can't seem to have the steady hand that requires, I thought about using a boolean made up of postive and necative toruses, but that may be a last resort. There is probably an easy solution, I think I am just looking too hard. Just wondering if anyone could shed some light. P.S. the subject is the phrase that it is because I feel like Ben Stein when he played the monotone teacher in "The Wonder Years"

Why not use a package that has editable gradient fills such as pshop and use the image to create the lattice/terrain

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

THe map (previous post) produces this image, the map uses linear mapping between each gradient point, this should be smoothed or the gradient adjusted a bit more carefully then this demo. As is it produces this terrain.

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

Or you could use a water textured cube (positive) with alternating positive and negative torii on its top face. It would take some tweaking to position but should be do-able.

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you can smooth Cog's ripple easily by applying a gausian blurr of somewhere between 10 and 15 pixels. The result is quite good.

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thank you to everyone. I will try them out.

There is a good freeware plug in to do this downloadable at http://www.redfieldplugins.com/wr.htm I use it in photoshop but it is available for PSP photopaint etc.- Ken