Visiting the Gödel universe

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1563-1570

  Grave, Frank ^a   Buser, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

General relativity; G del universe; Nonlinear ray tracing; Time travel

Indexed keywords

DATASETS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; DIRECT ILLUMINATIONS; EGOCENTRIC POINTS; EINSTEIN'S FIELD EQUATIONS; EINSTEIN'S THEORIES; GENERAL RELATIVITIES; GENERAL RELATIVITY; INTERESTING MODELS; INTRINSIC SYMMETRIES; LOOK-UP TABLES; MOVING DIELECTRIC MEDIAS; NONLINEAR RAY TRACING; OPTICAL; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS; PRE-PROCESSING; RENDERING PROCESSES; SHORT-COMINGS; SPACE AND TIMES; SPEED-UP; TIME TRAVEL; TIME TRAVELS; VECTOR FIELDS; WORLD MODELS;

GRAVITATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHYSICS; RAY TRACING; RELATIVITY; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 54949115820     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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