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  Re: A-HA! Gravitational lensing does show up as a ring!  
From: gregjohn
Date: 12 Jan 2008 08:20:00
Message: <web.4788be53f00f166d34d207310@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_cross
>

At least that's SYMMETRIC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring

I think that gravitational lensing makes more intuitive sense as a ring, or a
symmetric arrangement of points.  Two points I think is easier to represent in
vector art, and I still think a temptation if you don't really understand the
phenomenon.


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