Visions of Curved Spacetime
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About this Site
This site is based on a personal collection of images originating from 25 years of work in the field of visualization general relativity. Many images of this work have already been published and are widely known, yet usually they are used for their colorful impact supporting the science behind, but glossy publications do not come with sufficient background information on what is actually shown in them. This site intends to provide more insight to those images and complements them with images from the same visualization process that have not been published before, seeking to provide more insight to what is actually shown.
About the Images
The images presented here are generally optimized for display on the web, thus reduced in size and quality as compared to their original version. For publication in print media usage of the high resolution original version is highly encouraged (some images exist in resolutions up to 16384 x 16384 pixels). Images may generally be published without publication fees, but proper credits must be given at each publication and the author would like to receive a copy of the printed medium as reference collection.
About this site’s name
There is a distinct difference between the term “gravity” and “gravitation”. While “gravity” is rather referring to the heaviness of massive objects, the “gravitation” is more referring to the attraction of massive objects as fundamental physical force caused by these masses. For instance, the term “gravity wave” is referring to natural phenomena found on Earth describing (e.g.) density patterns in the atmosphere, which shows up as certain structures in cloud formation. In contrast, “gravitational waves” are evolving structural patterns in vacuum space-time, usually caused by the accelerated motion of massive objects. As this site provides information about gravitational waves, not gravity waves, its appropriate name would therefore be “gravitation.photon.at”, not “gravity.photon.at”. However, the latter is easier to remember and to type, thus with some artistic freedom this name has been chosen, even though it is not strictly correct. Purists are referred to this very paragraph here,
About the Author
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