UFO Light Speed!

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Last Update: 2013-03-20

UfoLS is a UFO port of the famous lightspeed application. It illustrates the effects of special relativity on (fast) moving objects. Using libUFO, it runs natively under X11 and Win32. Win32 binaries are included.

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