fluid seperation and it's material

http://www.vimeo.com/1870106

wow , that’s an amazing rendering , materials , nodes , how to seperate a portion of the fluid like this ?

thanks a lot .

Read about the control object for a fluid system here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Physics/Fluids

This is some dated info, but useful in explaining the parameters of the fluid object.
http://www.pkblender.it/FluidSim/domain.htm