Analysing Curved Spacetimes with Tensor Splats
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چکیده
A new visualization technique for visualizing three-dimensional symmetric positive definite tensor fields of rank two is described. It supports studying the spatial projection of a spacetime metric. The rendering technique is demonstrated upon the Schwarzschild metric of a static black hole, the Kerr metric of a rotating black hole in two different coordinate systems, and a numerically computed dataset describing the metric of two colliding black holes.
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