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Light Speed! project is an interactive relativistic simulator. Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effec

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Straker Skunk

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Light Speed! project is an interactive relativistic simulator.

Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects.

When an object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the speed of light is approached.

These relativistic effects are viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length, object hue, brightness and shape.

Here are some key features of "Light Speed":
Real-time interactive viewing
3D object importer
Snapshot exporter
Special Relativity Scene (SRS) exporter
Reference geometry
Independent toggles for the four relativistic effects
Numerical camera location + target readout and input
Switchable background color

Requirements:
A Unix/Linux workstation running the X Window System
A fast CPU
OpenGL or Mesa3D libraries
GTK+ toolkit library