Visualization in the Einstein Year 2005: A Case Study on Explanatory and Illustrative Visualization of Relativity and Astrophysics

Weiskopf, Daniel; Borchers, Marc; Ertl, T.; Falk, Martin; Fechtig, O.; Frank, Randall; Grave, Frank; King, Andrew P.; Kraus, Ute; Müller, Thomas; Nollert, Hans-Peter; Mendez, I.R.; Ruder, H.; Schafhitzel, Tobias; Schär, Sissel Guttormsen; Zahn, Corvin; Zatloukal, Martin

doi:10.1109/vis.2005.120

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“…Illustrative techniques have been applied in relativity and astrophysics [WBE*05, WBE*06]. The main goal in this context was to convey various aspects of the theories of special and general relativity and of related fields of cosmology and astrophysics.…”

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A Survey of Surface‐Based Illustrative Rendering for Visualization

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Viola

Preim

et al. 2018

Computer Graphics Forum

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In this paper, we survey illustrative rendering techniques for 3D surface models. We first discuss the field of illustrative visualization in general and provide a new definition for this sub‐area of visualization. For the remainder of the survey, we then focus on surface‐based models. We start by briefly summarizing the differential geometry fundamental to many approaches and discuss additional general requirements for the underlying models and the methods' implementations. We then provide an overview of low‐level illustrative rendering techniques including sparse lines, stippling and hatching, and illustrative shading, connecting each of them to practical examples of visualization applications. We also mention evaluation approaches and list various application fields, before we close with a discussion of the state of the art and future work.

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A Survey of Surface‐Based Illustrative Rendering for Visualization

Lawonn

Viola

Preim

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Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Furthermore, the visualization of relativistic aberration effects has become an active field of research, which poses challenges to both the theory and its computer implementation, see Ref. 6 and references therein.…”

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Relativistic aberration for accelerating observers

Beig

Heinzle

2008

American Journal of Physics

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We investigate the effects of the aberration of light for a uniformly accelerating observer. The observer we consider is initially at rest with respect to a luminous spherical object-a star, say-and then starts to move away with constant acceleration. The main results we derive are the following: (i) The observer always sees an initial increase of the apparent size of the object; (ii) The apparent size of the object approaches a non-zero value as the proper time of the observer goes to infinity. (iii)There exists a critical value of the acceleration such that the apparent size of the object is always increasing when the acceleration is super-critical. We show that, while (i) is a purely non-relativistic effect, (ii) and (iii) are effects of the relativistic aberration of light and are intimately connected with the Lorentzian geometry of Minkowksi spacetime. Finally, the examples we present illustrate that, while more or less negligible in everyday life, the three effects can be significant in the context of space-flight.

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“…Papers in the modelling and simulation category make use of domain specific knowledge to model, simulate and visualize physical phenomena. We review simulations of sound reflection and refraction within a room [BDM*05, LCM07b, CLT*08, BMD*08, DBM*06] and works that model and visualize theories of general and special relativity[WBE*05], the Gödel universe [GB08], planetary nebula [MKDH04] and the molecular skin surface [CS04, CS05]. These papers take advantage of advanced domain knowledge and/or close collaboration with the physical scientists to advance the science in the physical and visualization fields.…”

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“…We review papers that report on visualizations for theories of general and special relativity[WBE*05]*, [MGW10] and visualize physical aspects of the Gödel universe [GB08]* [GMDW09]*.…”

Section: Physicsmentioning

confidence: 99%