PHYS 5770 General Relativity Spring 2001: BHFS

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Stages of the BHFS

Students will work in groups of about 5. Each group will collaborate to develop an interactive Black Hole Flight Simulator. Development will progress through a series of timed stages, listed below.

Your group should complete your BHFS to the stage indicated by the date indicated. 3/8 of your overall grade will be based on evaluation of your group's BHFS at each stage.

Stage	Date	Goal
0		Establish a group website.
1	Th 8 Feb	Load an image as a texture, and display it. Begin animation.
2	Th 1 Mar	Apply arbitrary rotations and Lorentz transformations to the image. Optionally redshift.
3	Th 22 Mar	Distort the image with a non-rotating black hole. Add a heads-up display showing the horizon of the black hole.
4	Th 19 Apr	Combine all distortions. Allow the observer to move and accelerate realistically.
5	Th 3 May	Final version.

Report on the BHFS

You will each individually write a final report on (some aspect of) your personal contribution to the group BHFS. I would imagine that your report might fill 3 typed pages, but there is no hard and fast rule.

You may choose to write your report as an html document.

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Updated 10 Jan 2001