The BHFS features:
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Comprehensive implementation of special relativity.
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Comprehensive realization of the complete
Reissner-Nordstriöm geometry
of an ideal, non-rotating, charged black hole,
including the interior of the black hole
and its connections via wormholes and white holes to other universes,
and thence to yet other universes.
The mass and charge of the black hole are arbitrarily adjustable.
The BHFS does not yet implement rotating black holes (Kerr-Newman geometry),
but I hope to fix that one day.
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Full implementation of arbitrary numbers of
“rigid body” objects,
which by default move along geodesics.
The observer is attached to one such object.
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Full implementation of arbitrary numbers of
“free-fall” objects,
each of whose parts moves along its own geodesic,
so that the object is tidally torn apart as it moves.
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General relativistic volume-rendering,
both outside and inside the horizon.
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Interactive control,
with mouse and keyboard,
of the view, of the motion of the observer,
and of numerous aspects of the scene.
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Command line control over an internet socket connection
allows total control of every aspect of the scene and flightpath.
This allows rendering reproducible scenes for film and TV.
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Able to render to arbitrary single- or multi-piped graphics configurations.
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HDR (High Dynamic Range) color-rendering
with ILM's OpenEXR 16-bit half-float format.
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Numerous accelerations, fast algorithms, and graphic refinements
designed to achieve seamless high-quality rendering while
maintaining maximum speed.
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