Helmut
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Gravity Lensing
For a project I need to generate an animation of a gravity lens. The target group are not physics students but interested pupils of sec. schools (17 or 18 yo), ie all I need to show is the basic principle of gravity distorting 3D space.
Fluffing around for half of the day all I could come up with is the Bulge modifier (in this case it a Pinch modifier).
1 Start: No gravitational field > no lensing
2 Middle: Getting there
3 End: Galaxy / Black hole in the centre distorts space and thus bends the light (shown by white path) emitted from some far cosmic object and received by planet earth in the foreground
I have the nagging feeling that there is a much better way to show this (possibly a script I am dimly aware of but can´t remember, presumably because I am mentally stuck on a mediocre solution). Does anybody have a bright idea ?
Thank you
For a project I need to generate an animation of a gravity lens. The target group are not physics students but interested pupils of sec. schools (17 or 18 yo), ie all I need to show is the basic principle of gravity distorting 3D space.
Fluffing around for half of the day all I could come up with is the Bulge modifier (in this case it a Pinch modifier).
1 Start: No gravitational field > no lensing
2 Middle: Getting there
3 End: Galaxy / Black hole in the centre distorts space and thus bends the light (shown by white path) emitted from some far cosmic object and received by planet earth in the foreground
I have the nagging feeling that there is a much better way to show this (possibly a script I am dimly aware of but can´t remember, presumably because I am mentally stuck on a mediocre solution). Does anybody have a bright idea ?
Thank you