Searchlight and Doppler effects in the visualization of special relativity: A corrected derivation of the transformation of radiance

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 278-292

  Weiskopf, Daniel ^a   Kraus, Ute ^a   Ruder, Hanns ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aberration of light; Algorithms; Doppler effect; I.3.7 Computer Graphics : Three Dimentional Graphics and Realism Color, shading, shadowing, and texture; Illumination; J.2 Computer Applications : Physical Sciences and Engineering Physics; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005019609     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/336414.336459     Document Type: Article

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