c is the limit!

[orion]

Hi,
I downloaded celestia quite a few months ago, but only seriously into it for the past few days. While traversing the universe at unimaginably high speeds, something struck me ...relativity. Instead viewing blackness at 1^10 ly/s how about viewing relativistic effect at speed near c? This thought may have come up earlier to any other user, which I may not be aware of. I am not a computer expert...so I leave this challenge to all those who are.

P.S: Here is a site that has a software featuring all the relativistic effects:-
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/ ~weiskopf/vr/software.html

which unfortunately didn't work on my machine

[Rassilon]

You might want to take a look at Marc's work on Celestia...From what I understand he might be implementing some of this in Celestia at some point with his Mostly Harmless project...

http://mostlyharmless.sourceforge.net/index.htm

[astrum aspicio]

Hi,
I downloaded celestia quite a few months ago, but only seriously into it for the past few days. While traversing the universe at unimaginably high speeds, something struck me :idea: ...relativity. Instead viewing blackness at 1^10 ly/s how about viewing relativistic effect at speed near c? This thought may have come up earlier to any other user, which I may not be aware of. I am not a computer expert...so I leave this challenge to all those who are.

P.S: Here is a site that has a software featuring all the relativistic effects:-
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/ ~weiskopf/vr/software.html

which unfortunately didn't work on my machine :(

Interesting idea! Relativistic effects should also be noticable when hovering near massive gravitational bodies... (of course, the user should be able to disable relativistic effects if he wants)