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Relativistic raytracing

42 pointsby vismit2000yesterday at 2:39 AM8 commentsview on HN

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jiehongtoday at 8:50 PM

Would the image be very different for a rotating black hole?

Since they probably all rotate in nature.

hackyhackytoday at 5:14 PM

This is very interesting, but way above my pay grade. Can someone explain how the resulting image reflects light traveling backwards in time?

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leidenfrosttoday at 5:58 PM

Someone should implement this as a mod for RTX No Man Sky

knorkertoday at 8:05 PM

Like 20-30 years ago there was a relativistic raytracer that was like POV-Ray, but with relativistic effects. Maybe named "backlight"?

How does this compare?

Edit: yeah this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20010604001305/http://www.anu.ed...