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Imagining Physics

Visualizing physics through videos, browser demos, shaders, and small games. The focus is on making abstract ideas easier to see: relativity, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, differential geometry.

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Action fronts, a caustic, and two classical trajectories in the Variational calculus laboratory.
Calculus of variations / interactive

Variational Calculus

Grab a curve and watch its integral change. Explore four classic variational problems, then follow action fronts, rays, caustics, and Kepler orbits.

Play demo ↗ Read the companion essay →
A quantum wave and yellow probability-flow trails in a four-by-four packet grid
New article / quantum search

Grover implementation with a particle in a Box

Our search uses one particle’s spatial wave. Explore free mixing from the box’s energy spectrum, an inverse made by waiting forward, and an extension with spin.

Read and explore → Grovers algoritm — a refresher →
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Relativistic phenomena from first person perspective

A first-person visualization of special relativistic phenomena.

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Double-Slit Experiment in Pilot-Wave Theory Visualized

A Bohmian / pilot-wave visualization of the double-slit experiment.

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Relativistic Rotation 1: Ehrenfest and the Wheel

The first part of the relativistic rotation series, beginning from the Ehrenfest paradox.

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VR / SideQuest

Game of Coriolis in VR

An immersive VR version for experiencing Coriolis and centrifugal forces directly.

Open VR version →
XR Demo
WebXR / relativity

Relativistic Observer XR Demo

An interactive desktop and VR demo for exploring relativistic observation, Lorentz contraction, and aberration. Note: It is meant to be experienced in a VR headset for the full effect.

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