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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

The Joy of Why

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How to Make Asymmetric Waves

The round pool is only 25 meters in diameter and two meters deep. There are 164 of them, I suppose, more or less equally spaced around this sort of word. So you can make enormous waves if you just completely focus things axisymmetrically. And that we think is giving some insight into the mechanism that occurs in the real ocean. But there always is something we call a directional distribution. Some spread of energy over multiple different directions.

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