Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulators
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Guide to Special Relativistic Flight Simulator Sites
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MIT's
A Slower Speed of Light
game.
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Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn's
Space Time Travel
is one of the most informative sites.
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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.
Link dead 2020 Jan.
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Norbert Dragon and Nicolai Mokros'
View of Stonehenge
has clear physical descriptions
and simple pictures, again without colour shifts.
Their
movie flying through Stonehenge.
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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.
Link dead 2020 Jan.
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Craig Savage's
Trip on a light-speed rollercoaster, and other movies.
Link dysfunctional 2020 Jan.
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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 2014 Jan 13; checked for dead links 2020 Jan 27