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Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program developed at MIT
to illustrate 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, becoming
more and more pronounced as it approaches c-- the ultimate
speed limit of 299,792,458 m/s. These relativistic effects
are viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length,
object hue, brightness and shape.
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