Hanns Ruder et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 125014 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/125014
How computers can help us in creating an intuitive access to relativity
Focus on Visualization in PhysicsHanns Ruder1, Daniel Weiskopf2, Hans-Peter Nollert1 and Thomas Müller2
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Computers have added many new possibilities to the tool box used for visualizing science in general and relativity in particular. We present some new results from our own work: (2+1) dimensional Minkowski diagrams showing two spatial dimensions, extended wormhole visualization, and the illustration of accretion discs by using the approximation via a rigidly rotating disc of dust. We also discuss some related examples from our earlier work, such as interactive and immersive visualization, or the visualization of the warp drive metric.
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04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure
07.05.Rm Data presentation and visualization: algorithms and implementation
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Issue 12 (December 2008)
Received 13 August 2008
Published 1 December 2008
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How computers can help us in creating an intuitive access to relativity
Hanns Ruder et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 125014
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