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6.0 People

The Major Players in Relativistic Visualization (alphabetical):

1. Benger, Werner: Light++ Raytracer (Circa 1995) Raytracing using hyperbolic light paths (1992)

2. Hale, Mark : School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London

3. Hamilton, Andrew: The Lorentz Contracted Cartwheel animation courtesy of Andrew Hamilton, from the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, U of Colo - Boulder.

4. Hanson, Andrew : Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.

5. Hollasch, Steve. Four-Space Visualization of 4D Objects (Master's Thesis)

6. Weiskopf, Daniel: General Relativity - rigidly rotating disk of dust, courtesy of Daniel Weiskopf of the Universität Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) and Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tübingen

7. Zahn, Corvin: The four bicycle tire Rolling Wheels animations (Rollende Räder) are courtesy of Corvin Zahn, of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tübingen.

Additional rigid-disk or 'cartwheel', and other relativistic visualizations can be found in Germany at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tübingen

Acronyms

Glossary

Aberration of light
Doppler effect
Gravitmagnetic
Gravitational Thomas Precession (GTP)
Gravitational Lienard Weichart Potenial
Inertial Reference Frame
Lattice - a regular 3D (or 4D) array.
Lienard Weichart Potenial
Lorentz Contraction
Lorentz Metric
Minkowski Metric
Metric
Momentary Comoving Reference Frame (MCRF)
Non-inertial Reference Frame
Retarded Time
Searchlight effect
Space-time
Terrell Rotation
Thomas Precession

References

Bibliography

3 Bibliographic Timelines showing the evolution of Visualization

Flat 4D Visualization Timeline: The following published papers are indicative of the activity in this field:

Special Relativistic Visualization Timeline: A list of published papers, indicative of the state-of-the-art activity in the field of SR Visualization is provided below.

ID No	Year	Author	Author, Title, Journal, Date
1.59.02	1959	Terrel;	J. Terrell. Invisibility of the Lorentz contraction. Physical Review, 116(4):1041–1045, Nov. 1959.
1.70.01	1970	Scott; Driel;	G. D. Scott and H. J. van Driel. Geometrical appearances at relativistic speeds. American Journal of Physics, 38(8):971–977, Aug. 1970.
1.88.02	1988	Glassner, Andrew S.	Glassner, Andrew S., "Spacetime Ray Tracing for Animation ", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 8 no. 2, pp. 60--70, March 1988. 2
1.89.01	1989	Hsiung;Dunn;	P.-K. Hsiung and R. H. P. Dunn. Visualizing relativistic effects in spacetime. In Proceedings of Supercomputing ’89 Conference, pages 597–606, 1989.
1.90.02	1990	Hsiung;Thibadeau;Cox;Dunn;	P.-K. Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau, C.B. Cox and R.H.P. Dunn, Time Dilation Visualization in Relativity, In Proceedings of the Supercomputing '90 Conference, pages 835-844, 1990.
1.90.06	1990	Hsiung;Thibadeau;Cox;Dunn;Wu;Olbrich;	P.-K. Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau, C.B. Cox, R.H.P. Dunn, M. Wu and P.A. Olbrich, Wide-Band Relativistic Doppler Effect Visualization, In Proceedings of the Visualization '90 Conference, pages 83-92, Oct. 1990.
1.90.08	1990	Hsiung; Thibadeau; Wu;	P.-K. Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau and M. Wu, T-Buffer: Fast visualization of Relativistic Effects in Spacetime, Computer Graphics (1990 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics), 24 (2): (1990), 83-88.
1.90.09	1990	Hsiung; Thibadeau; Cox; Dunn;	P.-K. Hsiung, R. H. Thibadeau, C. B. Cox, and R. H. P. Dunn. Time dilation visualization in relativity. In Proceedings of the Supercomputing ’90 Conference, pages 835–844, 1990.
1.90.10	1990	Hsiung;Thibadeau;	P-K Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau. Spacetime Visualization of Relativistic Effects. Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation, p.236-243.
1.90.11	1990	Hsiung; Thibadeau; Cox; Dunn; Wu; Olbrich;	P-K Hsiung, R.H Thibadeau. Wide-band Relativistic Doppler Effect Visualization. In Visualization 90, Oct. 1990. Carnegie Mellon University
1.91.04	1991	Gekelman; Maggs; Xu;	W. Gekelman, J. Maggs, and L. Xu. Real-time relativity. Computers in Physics, 5(4):372–385, July/Aug. 1991.
1.96.01	1996	Chang; Lai; Chen;	M.-C. Chang, F. Lai, and W.-C. Chen. Image shading taking into account relativistic effects. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 15(4):265–300, Oct. 1996.
1.97.05	1997	Rau;	Scientific Visualization (Relativistic Flights)
1.97.06	1997	Weiskopf. Ruder;	. Rau, D. Weiskopf, and H. Ruder, Special Relativity in Virtual Reality, VisMath '97
1.97.14	1997	Searle;	A.C. Searle. SOFTWARE: Backlight Ray Tracing. Download.
1.98.03	1998	Weiskopf. Ruder;	R. Rau, D. Weiskopf, and H. Ruder, Special Relativity in Virtual Reality, Mathematical Visualization, H.-C. Hege, K. Polthier (eds.), Springer-Verlag 1998, 269-279.
1.98.04	1998	Betts;	C. Betts. Fast rendering of relativistic objects. The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 9(1):17–31, 1998.
1.98.05	1998	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf. Speed limit 1 079 252 849 km/h. Video shown at the Computer Animation Festival ’98, GI Jahrestagung, Magdeburg, 1998.
1.98.06	1998	Searle	C.M. Savage and A.C. Searle. Visualizing Special Relativity.
1.99.02	1999	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Weiskopf, U. Kraus, and H. Ruder, Searchlight and Doppler Effects in the Visualization of Special Relativity: A Corrected Derivation of the Transformation of Radiance, ACM Transactions of Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1999, 278-292.
1.99.03	1999	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf, A Texture Mapping Approach for the Visualization of Special Relativity, IEEE Visualization '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics Proceedings, A. Varshney, C.M. Wittenbrink, H. Hagen (eds.), ACM Press, October 1999, 41-44.
1.99.04	1999	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf, An Immersive Virtual Environment for Special Relativity, SFB 382 - Report 108, University of Tübingen, January 1999.
1.99.05	1999	Larson;	C. Clark, W. A. Hiscock, and S. L. Larson. Null geodesics in the Alcubierre warp-drive: The view from the bridge. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 16:3965– 3972, 1999.
2.00.05	2000	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Weiskopf, D. Kobras, H. Ruder, An Image-Based Approach to Special Relativistic Rendering, SFB 382 - Report 145, University of Tübingen, March 2000
2.00.06	2000	Weiskopf. Kobras. Ruder;	D. Weiskopf, D. Kobras, and H. Ruder, Real-World Relativity: Image-Based Special Relativistic Visualization, IEEE Visualization 2000 Proceedings, T. Ertl, B. Hamann, A. Varshney (eds.), ACM Press, October 2000, 303-310.
2.00.07	2000	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Weiskopf, D. Kobras, and H.Ruder. Real-world relativity: Image-based special relativistic visualization. In IEEE Visualization 2000 Proceedings, pages 445–448, October 2000.
2.00.09	2000	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf, An Immersive Virtual Environment for Special Relativity, WSCG Conference Proceedings, V. Skala (ed.), University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, February 2000, 337-344.
2.00.10	2000	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf, Fast Visualization of Special Relativistic Effects on Geometry and Illumination, Data Visualization 2000 (Proceedings of the EG/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization), W. de Leeuw, R. van Liere (eds.), Springer 2000, Wien, 219-228.
2.00.11	2000	Kraus;	U. Kraus. Brightness and colour of rapidly moving objects: The visual appearance of a large sphere revisited. American Journal of Physics, 68(1):56–60, 2000.
2.00.12	2000	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf. Fast visualization of special relativistic effects on geometry and illumination. In Proceedings of EG/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2000, pages 219–228, 2000.
2.01.05	2001	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf. Visualization of Four-Dimensional Spacetimes, Disseration, University of Tübingen, 2001

General Relativistic Visualization Timeline: A list of published papers, indicative of the state-of-the-art activity in the field of GR Visualization is provided below.

ID No	Year	Author	Author, Title, Journal, Date
1.89.02	1989	Ruder. Kraus;	H.-P. Nollert, H. Ruder, H. Herold, and U. Kraus. The relativistic “looks” of a neutron star. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 208:153, 1989.
1.89.03	1989	Ertl. Ruder. Zeller;	T. Ertl, F. Geyer, H. Herold, U. Kraus, R. Niemeier, H.-P. Nollert, A. Rebetzky, H. Ruder, and G. Zeller. Visualization in astrophysics. In Eurographics ’89 Proceedings, pages 149–158, 1989.
1.92.01	1992	Benger;	Benger, Werner: Raytracing using hyperbolic light paths (1992)
1.92.04	1992	Bryson;	S. Bryson. Virtual spacetime: An environment for the visualization of curved spacetimes via geodesic flows. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization ’92 Conference, pages 291–298, 1992.
1.92.05	1992	Falco;	P. Schneider, J. Ehlers, and E. E. Falco. Gravitational Lenses. Springer, Berlin, 1992.
1.93.01	1993	Benger;	Benger, Werner: Simulation of a Black Hole by Raytracing
1.93.06	1993	Nemiroff;	R.J. Nemiroff, Visual Distortions Near a Black Hole and Neutron Star, American Journal of Physics, 61(7), 619-632, July 1993
1.94.05	1994	Cornish;	C. P. Dettmann, N. E. Frankel, and N. J. Cornish. Fractal basins and chaotic trajectories in multi-black hole space-times. Physical Review D, 50:618–621, 1994.
1.95.06	1995	Groller;	E. Groller. Nonlinear ray tracing: Visualizing strange worlds. The Visual Computer, 11(5):263–276, 1995.
1.95.07	1995	Meinel;	G. Neugebauer and R. Meinel. General relativistic gravitational field of a rigidly rotating disk of dust: Solution in terms of ultraelliptic functions. Physical Review Letters, 75:3046, 1995.
1.96.02	1996	Ruder;	H.-P. Nollert, U. Kraus, and H. Ruder. Visualization in curved spacetimes. I. Visualization of objects via fourdimensional ray-tracing. In F.W. Hehl, R. A. Puntigam, and H. Ruder, editors, Relativity and Scientific Computing, pages 314–329. Springer, 1996.
1.96.03	1996	Herold;	H.-P. Nollert and H. Herold. Visualization in curved spacetimes. II. Visualization of surfaces via embedding. In F.W. Hehl, R. A. Puntigam, and H. Ruder, editors, Relativity and Scientific Computing, pages 330– 351. Springer, 1996.
1.97.01	1997	Benger;	Benger, Werner;The Black Earth or: The Day, when Earth became a Black Hole
1.97.02	1997	Benger;	Benger, Werner; ART - a project for the interactive visualization and exploration of numerically found curved spacetimes
1.97.04	1997	Meinel;	R. Meinel. The Rigidly Rotating Disk of Dust and Its Black Hole Limit
1.97.11	1997	Hord;	M. J. Pfenning and L. H. Ford. The unphysical nature of “warp drive”. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14(7):1743–1751, 1997.
1.97.13	1997	Thorne;	M. S. Morris and K. S. Thorne. Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity. American Journal of Physics, 56(5):395–412, 1988.
2.00.01	2000	Weiskopf. Ansorg;	D. Weiskopf, M. Ansorg, Visualization of the General Relativistic Rigidly Rotating Disk of Dust, Annalen der Physik, 9 (2000) Spec. Issue, 179-185.
2.00.03	2000	Meinel;	R. Meinel. Gravitational fields of rotating disks and black holes
2.00.08	2000	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf, Four-Dimensional Non-Linear Ray Tracing as a Visualization Tool for Gravitational Physics, IEEE Visualization 2000 Proceedings, T. Ertl, B. Hamann, A. Varshney (eds.), ACM Press, October 2000, 445-448.
2.00.14	2000	Weiskopf;	D. Weiskopf. Non-linear ray tracing as a visualization tool for gravitational physics. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization 2000 Conference, pages 445–448, 2000.
2.00.16	2000	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Weiskopf, U. Kraus, and H. Ruder. Illumination and acceleration in the visualization of special relativity: A comment on fast rendering of relativistic objects. The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 11(4):185–195, 2000.
2.01.02	2001	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Kobras, D. Weiskopf, and H. Ruder, Image-Based Rendering and General Relativity, WSCG Conference Proceedings, V. Skala (ed.), University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, February 2001, 130-137
2.02.02	2002	Weiskopf. Ruder;	D. Kobras, D. Weiskopf, and H. Ruder, General Relativistic Image-Based Rendering, The Visual Computer, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2002, 250-258.