Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme
Thomas Müller
GeodesicViewer - A tool for exploring geodesics in the theory of relativity
Thomas Müller, Frank Grave
The GeodesicViewer realizes exocentric two- and three-dimensional illustrations of lightlike and timelike geodesics in the general theory of relativity. By means of an intuitive graphical user interface, all parameters of a spacetime as well as the initial conditions of the geodesics can be modified interactively. This makes the GeodesicViewer a useful instrument for the exploration of geodesics in four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes.
The GeodesicViewer
The GeodesicViewer can be downloaded from the Computer Physics Communications Program Library.
Catalogue Identifier: AEFP_v1_0
T. Müller, F. Grave GeodesicViewer - A tool for exploring geodesics in the theory of relativity accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communications DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.10.010