SAKURA · the valley at dusk

Cherry Valley

The blossoms are clouds of particles: each tree scatters a few hundred points in a sphere, jittered between pink and white — a mass at a distance, with gaps up close. The stream is a plane with a normal ripple, coloured by approximations of sky and bank plus a touch of Fresnel: cheap, but right when you stand on the bank. Petals fall with a sideways sway, rest two seconds on the surface, then drift downstream.

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Why the water is not a real reflection

A real reflection re-renders the whole scene, which an open valley shot cannot afford. Sky colour plus Fresnel plus one highlight already reads correctly from the bank, and the frame rate stays flat.