Oct 082023
I am simulating gravitational lenses, ray tracing the diffracted light.
With multiple lenses, the results can be absolutely fascinating. Here’s a case of four lenses, three static, a fourth lens transiting in front of the other three, with the light source a fuzzy sphere in the background.
I can’t stop looking at this animation. It almost feels… organic. Yet the math behind it is just high school math, a bit of geometry and trigonometry, nothing more.
NB: This post has been edited with an updated, physically more accurate animation.