Continue from here: References and Further Reading
Books
- G. Gamow, Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. (Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1965).
- Physical constants are adjusted so that relativity and quantum
mechanics enter into the realm of human experience. Sounds familiar?
- D.E. Mook and T. Vargish, Inside Relativity. (Princeton
University Press, Princeton, 1987).
- A very readable introduction to special and general relativity.
Has a number of diagrams to illustrate the aberration effect.
- E.F. Taylor and J.A. Wheeler, Space-time Physics. (Freeman,
New York, 1973).
- Another readable though more advanced introduction to special
relativity, containing many problems with worked solutions.
- W.G.V. Rosser, Introductory Special Relativity. (Taylor
& Francis, London, 1991).
- An advanced treatment of special relativity, which also has
a section on aberration containing explicit formulae.
- R. Resnick and D. Halliday, Basic Concepts in Relativity. (Macmillan, New York, 1992).
- Our discussion of time dilation and the twin paradox were
based on the good treatment found in this introductory text.
Papers
- G.D. Scott and M.R. Viner, The Geometrical Appearance of Large
Objects Moving at Relativistic Speeds. American Journal of Physics
33 (1965) 534.
- This paper was the first to derive the aberration effect using Lorentz
transformations. Our calculations were based on this treatment.
- Soo Wern Miin and Edward Teo, Visual Appearance of Objects Moving
at Relativistic Speeds. Proceedings of Science Research Congress 1996,
Singapore. [postscript source]
- Contains derivation of the aberration equations used to generate the
movies.
- Yian Chee Hoo and Edward Teo, Computer-Aided Visualisation of
Special Relativity. Proceedings of Science Research Congress 1996,
Singapore. [postscript source]
- Explains how the movies were created.
Web Sites
- C-ship: Relativistic Ray Traced Images
- The inspiration for this work; special relativity is explained using
a space ship flying through a lattice galaxy. Our graphs for Lorentz
contraction and time dilation were adapted from there.
- The Internet Home of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Valuable source of information and image source files for POV-Ray,
the ray-tracer of choice for this project.
- Albert Einstein Online
- Contains many links to Albert Einstein on the internet.