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Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera

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313 points yunyu | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 17:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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codethief ◴[19 Nov 24 20:34 UTC] No.42187816[source]▶
Very nice – if only I could try it! :'-) Any chance this could be ported to Android, at least for high-end devices with a decent GPU?
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1. lupsasca ◴[20 Nov 24 00:14 UTC] No.42189492[source]▶
The rotating black hole version that we implemented requires GPU code, and porting that to Android is nontrivial---though we'd love it if someone took our open-source code and ported it!

In the meantime, check out this code developed by Dominic Chang (grad student at Harvard) that implements lensing by a non-rotating (Schwarzschild) black hole in your browser: https://dominic-chang.com/bhi-filter/