Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulators
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Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulator Sites
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Taking over as the best site is
Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn's
Space Time Travel.
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John Walker's
C-Ship
is one of the most clearly written and presented sites,
and well worth reading through for the excellent explanations.
Sadly, John Walker's movies are wrong in one important way.
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Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Müller's special relativistic
gallery
shows several relativistic fly-bys.
The one of Saturn is especially nice.
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Norbert Dragon and Nicolai Mokros'
View of Stonhenge
has clear physical descriptions
and simple pictures, again without colour shifts.
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Steve Van Devender's
relativistic starflight
site has correct if rather primitive graphics.
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Antony Searle's
Seeing relativity
BackLight movies
are graphically stunning and undoubtedly correct,
but the presentation is confusing,
and the choice of movies could be improved.
One of the better movies (if you have an mpeg player) is the
Mercator
which however
mixes up the relativistic distortion with the fish-eye distortion
that comes from the Mercator Projection of the sphere.
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Daniel Richard G.'s
Light Speed!
does a snazzy job.
It offers many options you can turn on or off, including colour shifts.
Requires OpenGL.
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Adam Auton's
Warp
is an interactive simulator with many options,
and a nice tutorial.
Requires Windows and OpenGL.
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My own
The Rules of 4-dimensional Perspective
show you how to construct your own special relativistic scene.
What's Wrong?
By comparing to simulations from other sites,
determine what is wrong with
John Walker's
C-ship movie.
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Updated 30 Aug 2011