The gödel engine - An interactive approach to visualization in general relativity

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 807-814

  Grave, Frank ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a   Dachsbacher, Carsten ^a   Wunner, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS; EINSTEIN'S FIELD EQUATIONS; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARES; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; THEORY OF RELATIVITY;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 68549112784     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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