Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulators

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Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulator Sites

  1. MIT's A Slower Speed of Light game.
  2. Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn's Space Time Travel is one of the most informative sites.
  3. 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.
  4. Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Müller's special relativistic gallery shows several relativistic fly-bys. The one of Saturn is especially nice. Link dead 2020 Jan.
  5. Norbert Dragon and Nicolai Mokros' View of Stonehenge has clear physical descriptions and simple pictures, again without colour shifts. Their movie flying through Stonehenge.
  6. Steve Van Devender's relativistic starflight site has correct if rather primitive graphics.
  7. Antony Searle's Seeing relativity BackLight movies are graphically stunning. Link dead 2020 Jan.
  8. Craig Savage's Trip on a light-speed rollercoaster, and other movies. Link dysfunctional 2020 Jan.
  9. 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.
  10. Adam Auton's Warp is an interactive simulator with many options, and a nice tutorial. Requires Windows and OpenGL.
  11. 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 2014 Jan 13; checked for dead links 2020 Jan 27