Steven Waddell wrote in message <36f412ff.0@news.povray.org>...
>Does anyone know of a a version of POVRAY that takes account of the effects
>of general relativity?
>
>Also suggestions of any other relativistic raytracers would be appreciated


What sort of applications/scenes are you wanting this for?  I'd imagine most
things (orbits etc.) could be calculated using formulas within your scene
file - and that there wasn't any need for any additions to POV.  Come to
think of it... what extra effects are you hoping for?  If you're wanting the
see something like the bending of light rays under gravity, then I doubt
this would be possible as POV (at least not the official one..) doesn't deal
with light rays/photons in the correct manner.  4D is pretty hard to model
too ;)

I'd imagine POV is meant for and will probably say more for artistic design
than as a virtual laboratory (though it would be good if it was as well ;)



Matt


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