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Demonstrates the effects of special and general relativity in the setting of nearby planetary, stellar and galactic space.
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Here is a shareware educational program you can download and try on your computer. If you like what you see you can enable disabled features by paying a $10 registration fee. Requirements: Windows 98 or Windows XP, 32MB video card...A project to create a computer program that simulates relativistic motion. Free Download for Windows 9.x , Silicon Graphics, and soon Linux.
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~weiskopf/vr/
The program xrel depicts, as realistically as possible, the appearance of stars as seen from a starship moving at speeds close to the speed of light.
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Relativistic Starflight What would it be like to travel in a real starship? It's weirder than Star Trek, but not nearly as fast-paced. xrel depicts, as realistically as possible, the appearance of stars as seen from a starship moving at speeds close...A collection of links to various programs which simulate the effects of relativity
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relativistic flight simulation links Links computer movies of travel near the speed of light compiled by David Porthouse The Internet offers the ideal medium for the publication of a relativistic flight simulator, and there are now a few websites around which will show you...BACKLIGHT is a photorealistic relativistic visualisation system. Developed at the Australian National University by undergraduate student Antony Searle , it produces images and videos demonstrating the optical effects of special relativity.
http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Searle/
A real time relativity simulator for Windows, Linux and OS/2, using OpenGL.
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OpenGL Relativistic Spacetime Project OpenGL Relativistic Spacetime Project Sourceforge Project Browse CVS API Documentation Screen shots...A modular manageable high-performance 3D tool for Numerical Relativity.
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The Cactus Code Welcome! We are currently finishing a migration of the Cactus Website to these new pages, there may be some disruption in the next couple of days as we complete the migration, so please be patient. The old web pages can still...Features visualization of relativistic deformation effects of a spaceship like object.
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C-ship: Relativistic ray traced images Relativistic ray traced images Welcome aboard C-ship, exploring flight near the speed of light! C-ship helps you understand Einstein's theory of Special Relativity intuitively through the medium of computer-synthesised images. To view the images in this document, you need a...WWW exhibits based on the NCSA Relativity Group's work and on General Relativity.
http://jean-luc.aei-potsdam.mpg.de/Exhibits/