Ship Sailing over the Horizon

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Uploaded by on Jul 13, 2009

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ShipSailingOverTheHorizon/

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project contains thousands of free interactive visualizations, with new entries added daily.

As a ship sails away from your vantage point on shore, it appears not only to get smaller with distance but also to sink below the horizon, the lower parts of the ship disappearing first. This is a consequence of the curvature of the Earth.

Contributed by: S. M. Blinder

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