Real Time Relativity

Real Time Relativity is a computer program running on Windows or Mac OSX systems that allows the user to interactively experience a virtual relativistic world. See screenshot at right.

It was developed at the ANU by Lachlan McCalman, Antony Searle, Craig Savage and Michael Williamson. It follows on from our work on the Backlight relativistic ray tracer, and the Through Einsteins Eyes web site.

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Quick Facts

Real Time Relativity is the centrepiece of the project Teaching Physics Using Virtual Reality.
It uses the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to do the calculations necessary to fly around in a world obeying relativistic optics. We have written a short paper about it.
Instructions available here.

What's NEW?

30th October 2008

- Version: 1.4.0 Released

Mac version now available

2007

Paper: Exploration Learning of Special Relativity

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