Click or drag on the water to trigger a glowing ripple
This is the flat, top-down companion to the 3D bioluminescent waves simulator. Instead of an orbitable 3D shoreline, it looks straight down on the water: offshore swell rolls in from the top of the frame, shoals and steepens as it nears the sandy beach at the bottom, and breaks into a bright cyan-green crest wherever the shear on the disturbed plankton is strongest. Click or drag anywhere on the water to add extra glowing ripples on top of the natural wave-breaking light show, and adjust wave strength, plankton brightness, glow color and moonlight to see the shoreline respond.