Steve Trettel · with Henry Segerman, Rémi Coulon, Sabetta Matsumoto

Code: Nil Earth · 2020

Earth-textured sphere in Nil geometry, distorted by the non-commutative Heisenberg metric

Raymarching in Nil geometry with an earth-textured sphere. The Nil metric distorts the appearance of the sphere as viewed along different geodesics. Nil is a twisted geometry where horizontal translations do not commute, causing a characteristic helical distortion of the visual field. Controls: WASD to rotate, arrow keys to translate.

Steve Trettel · with Henry Segerman, Rémi Coulon, Sabetta Matsumoto
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