Light Speed! Light Speed! is a program developed at MIT to simulate the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to grow noticeable, and as c is approached-- the ultimate speed limit of 299,792,458 m/s-- they become very pronounced indeed. Specifically, these effects are: The Lorentz contraction - causing the object to appear shorter The Doppler red/blue shift - altering the hues of color observed The headlight effect - brightening or darkening the object Optical aberration - deforming the object in bizarre ways

Current Version:   1.2 License Type:   MozPL

Home Site: http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/soft/lightspeed/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   Yes, from Home Site Other Packages:   Yes, from Home Site Targeted Platforms: UNIX/X11 (SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, Linux) Software/Hardware Requirements: GTK+, Mesa3D to compile or run

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