Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which interactively illustrates the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object accelerates beyond (roughly) two hundred million meters per second, these strange effects become

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GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, Other Audience

User Interface

X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Data Visualization Software, C Education Software

Registered

2001-07-13