If water is so easy to mimic, why don't you explain how it's done.
To be fair, algorithms for simulating water have gotten much better over the years. Here's something from 2002:
Oh yeah, totally agree. What we can render these days is basically sorcery, no doubt. But the fact of the matter, to create the interactions, lighting effects, fluidity all within an environment that is hyperrealistic takes gobs of money, time, and artists. All of the ISS footage we see, to fake it, would take gobs of money, time, and artists.
Not to say that it couldn't be done, just seems highly impractical and actually quite pointless. As well, you won't see these types of effects on TBBT because of the aforementioned gobs of money, time, and artists required.
^ Nice claiming going on here!
Nice supporting???...not so much...
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Your OP was Name one particular difference between the scenes of astronauts on the ISS & TBBT. You've been offered many. Probably the most explicit is a no-cut 50 minute floating tour of the ISS. And there are 100's of other clips where things are done that are wildly different from anything in your TV show.
So what are you looking for now exactly?
Exactly what you offered...
The admission it is possible to create all of the footage presented on the NASA channel in studios here on earth.
So, I am looking for nothing more.
You stated there really are no objective differences between the things capable of being created for movies and those things claimed to be real, true space events.
Sci Fi fans can be entertained without needing to go to the movies!
The admission is not that it is possible to create
all of the footage presented on the NASA channel in studios here on earth.
Some yes, certainly not all.
As has been shown, the 50 minute
UN-CUT ISS tour video cannot be currently replicated in studios here on earth (nor in a vomit comet).
For reference:
As well, if we go back to Skylab in 1975-ish, this footage could not have been replicated in studios here on earth (nor in a vomit comet):
So no, not all ISS footage can be simulated.