Gravitational Lensing

2021   ·   The New York Times   ·   AR   Data-Visualization   Mobile   Physics-Simulation   Shaders   Spark-AR

An augmented reality black hole simulation that distorts your surroundings to demonstrate gravitational lensing, an effect used by the James Webb Space Telescope to peer deeper into space. Published to the Instagram account of The New York Times.

⚡ Technical achievements: The shaders used techniques like ray-marching to realistically model the black hole’s effects on light including optical distortions, redshift, and blueshift.

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