Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für
Informationstechnik Berlin
Department
Visualization and Data Analysis
Analysing Curved Spacetimes with Tensor Splats
Werner Benger and Hans-Christian Hege
Anstract
A new visualization technique for visualizing three-dimensional
symmetric positive definite tensor fields of rank two is described.
It supports studying the spatial projection of a spacetime matrix.
The rendering technique is demonstrated upon the Schwarzschild metric
of a static black hole, the Kerr metric of a rotating black hole in
two different coordinate systems, and a numerically computed dataset
describing the metric of two colliding black holes.
