The universe as an elastic solid

Interactive Visualization Software

If you have good computer with a lot of CPU power, you can try out a prototype of a spin visualization tool that is written with Unity in C#:

Please note that this requires really, really good computer, or else it will run extremely slowly!

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You can also download the Windows Executable

Please note that this requires really, really good computer, or else it will run extremely slowly!

The gray panel can be moved around:

The top slider is the phase (time):
If you move it to the left side, it will animate on its own.

The Kernel angle defines the “winding” or “folding” of space in the case spin 1/2, otherwise the amount of twist:

If you press H, you can see a help page:

Using WASD, you can fly around in the scene, to see the visuals from all sides.
Apologies that it runs only smoothly on very good computers.

I am also working on a VR version, but … well… either I have to wait for a more powerful VR device (I tried with Oculus 2) or I will have to seriously optimize the computations, because it is way too slow (and that is an understatement 🙂 :-).

VR alpha test