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Visualizing Flat Spacetime: Viewing Optical versus Special Relativistic Effects (1201.3671v1)
Published 17 Jan 2012 in physics.ed-ph, cs.CG, cs.GR, and physics.comp-ph
Abstract: A simple visual representation of Minkowski spacetime appropriate for a student with a background in geometry and algebra is presented. Minkowski spacetime can be modeled with a Euclidean 4-space to yield accurate visualizations as predicted by special relativity theory. The contributions of relativistic aberration as compared to classical pre-relativistic aberration to the geometry are discussed in the context of its visual representation.