README.md

OCaml-Ripple

Implement wave superposition with OCaml, a strong static functional programming language.

In this project, on one hand, I want to consolidate my OCaml programming skill, on the other hand, I try to build a large project which integrates OCaml with GPU programming.

I implement another larger OCaml project in GI-LPV.

if you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

Prerequisites

1. Make sure you have installed OCaml (4.0) and glMLite, glMLite is a package which provide OpenGL bindings for OCaml, for more detail about that, please refer to glMLite

2. Make sure your graphic card support OpenGL 3.0 with EXT _ GPU _ shader4 extension.

Abstract

when ripple touch water level, I try to save the wave superposition information as height field, and inject to 1-D texture.

wave model

snippet

for (i=0; i<n-1; i++)
{
	int base = i * SourceSize;
	vec4 v1 = texture1D(source, (base * InvN)*0.9998+0.0001);
	vec4 v2 = texture1D(source, ((base + 1) * InvN)*0.9998+0.0001);
	float InitT		= v1.x;
	float PosX		= v1.y;
	float PosY		= v1.z;
	float A			= v1.w;
	float Lambda	= v2.x;
	float Omega		= v2.y;
	float Velocity	= v2.z;
	float MaxPhase  = v2.w;
	float dTime = time - InitT;
	float dist = distance(cpos, v1.yz);
	float x = dTime - dist / Velocity;
	float phase = Omega/(1.0+Lambda2*dTime) * x - PI/2;
	Amplitude += A /(1 + Lambda * dist * dist + Lambda1 * dTime * dTime) * (cos(phase)) * (x > 0 ? 1:0) * ( phase < MaxPhase ? 1 : 0);
}