This a screenshot of an OpenGL program I wrote in my spare time during my undergraduate course to draw scenes with special-relativistic effects.

In this scene the spheres are orbiting clockwise around the centre sphere which is stationary (relative to the camera). The scene is illuminated with two black-body lights from behind the camera, and one green light from the top to show off the Doppler effect (red and blue shift).

If you are interested I have put the program on GitHub.

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[–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago

I've really done a similar thing. The main inspiration for me was my special relativity class at university. I have done my lighting differently to a A Slower Speed of Light, because I've used spectrums instead of RGB: I found this stack exchange answer afterwards which outlines why that makes more sense.

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