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Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics
- cturhan 12y agoGravitional lensing is one of my favorite phenomenon in physics. I did once a web version of it. Here is the link if you want to play with it. http://cihadturhan.com/lab/gravitional-lensing/ http://cihadturhan.com/lab/gravitional-lensing/
- taylorwc 12y agoThis is awesome. Any links to source or comments on what tools you used to make it?
- cturhan 12y agoIt's plain javascript. I used canvas and reflected the coordinates of pixels according to position of cursor. Also smoothed the effect using a heuristic smootherstep function.
- tjradcliffe 12y agoJust beautiful!
- gjm11 12y agoAt present, the title here on HN is "Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics" -- to which my immediate reaction, and I suspect not only mine, is: what, as opposed to in cookery? The original article title gives the answer: "... and in the movie Interstellar". Since the article really is about the rendering techniques used in the movie as well as about the physics of rotating black holes, I suggest that the HN title be made to match that of the original article.
- stolio 12y agoI saw the title and thought "is it the one from Interstellar!?!?" Thorne said he was going to publish based on their simulations so it's awesome it's here. I agree it might be nice to have the context in the title since this is cool for both physics and science-fiction fans.
- jayeshsalvi 12y agoI had pasted the whole title, but ycombinator removed the part after "-" I think.
- Cyndre 12y agoGravitational lensing or just large magnetic fields bending light? http://www.gizmag.com/synthetic-magnetism-stanford-photonic-crystal/25261/ http://www.gizmag.com/synthetic-magnetism-stanford-photonic-...