Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, an immersive virtual environment is presented which allows the user to virtually explore and \nexperience special relativity, including phenomena such as Lorentz contraction, time dilation, aberration, \nand finite speed of light. The \nrelativistic-vehicle-control \nmetaphor — a physically based camera control \ntechnique — is introduced for navigating at high velocities. Acceleration of the relativistic observer is investigated. Furthermore, tracking of both the position and velocity of the user is considered. A geometric \napproach to relativistic polygon rendering is described. The rendering pipeline is extended to accomplish \nthe relativistic transformations in parallel. The implementation supports multiprocessor and multipipe \nsystems for fast rendering and the same frame rates can be achieved for relativistic visualization as for \nnon-relativistic rendering.
Author: Daniel Weiskopf
Institution: University of Tübingen
Language: English
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W1569249728