Re: New Terrell Rotation Animation

Op 9/02/2025 om 22:24 schreef ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog:

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 17:54:22 +0000, guido wugi wrote:
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Op 9/02/2025 om 16:25 schreef ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog:

This morning, I completed an animation for Wikipedia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrell_Rotation_and_Illusory_FTL.gif#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D >
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No major insights, but it was fun to program. I've added it to the
article on Special relativity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Measurement_versus_visual_appearance >
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Nice work! I've seen earlier well-done German animations, don't know
where I kept the links though.

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I believe this is what you were thinking about.
https://www.spacetimetravel.org/
https://www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de/

Yes, in particular
Was Einstein noch nicht sehen konnte - Visualisierung relativistischer Effekte <https://www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de/tompkins>
I also remember a Jonathan Doolin having some very nice gifs on same topic, but they're in some obscure discussion forum thread I can't dig up right now.
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guido wugi