jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) (12/24/87)
I found this lurking on sci.ohysics, I thought I should bring it to the attention of this news group. Serious education of the computing public is obviously needed here. ) From: jack@cs.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin) vvvvvvvvvvvv ) Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.games.programmer,COMP.SYS.MAC ) Subject: simulating relativistic motion ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) Date: 7 Dec 87 21:00:08 GMT ) ) ) A long time ago I read about a program developed at MIT that produced ) images of the way ordinary scenes (a street) would look at speeds nearing ) c. I don't know if it used a plotter or calligraphic display, but it was ) so long ago that whatever it did should surely be possible now in real time ) on a Mac or equivalent. Does anything like that exist? - a sort of flight ) simulator for cosmic ray particles, that would let you define a scene ) with a 3D graphics editor and then look at it at various fractions of c. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ) (COLOUR WOULD BE A NICE OPTIONAL EXTRA). The MIT program produced weirdly ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) drooping lampposts. ) More ambitiously: what about general relativity? Here I am thinking about ) some of the descriptions in Kaufmann's "The Cosmic Frontiers of General ) Relativity" about how the world would look from near a black hole. ) ) -- ) ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk ) JANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs USENET: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack ) Mail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, ) 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (041 339 8855 x 6045) ) (Most of the Capatilization was supplied by me. -- ________________________________________ This is the voice of world control, | Mike Davis we bring you peace, | ihnp4!ihlpm!jmdavis the peace you need to survive. - C:TFP |_________________________