Black Hole Checkerboard
Steve Trettel
| Medium | Custom GPU raytracer for Schwarzschild geometry |
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| The Art | A schwarzschild black hole passing in front of a black-and-white grid, showing the distortion of spacetime through gravitational lensing. | The Math | A Schwarzschild black hole is one of the simplest nontrivial solutions to Einstein's general relativity, describing the region of spacetime around a non-rotating, neutrally charged point mass. Raytracing along null geodesics follows the curved trajectories of light through this spacetime, simulating what an observer would see with their eyes. |
| Categories | Physics Illustration, Computer Graphics, General Relativity |