Gravitational Waves From a Black Hole Merger

Accepted and presented at Supercomputing 2016 Visualization Shortcase : Short Videos.

This video shows a visualization of a gravitational waves simulation from the Center
for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University. The gravitational waves are generated from two black holes merging as detected by LIGO event GW150914. The COSMOS supercomputer at Cambridge was used for the simulation. The visualization was done in collaboration with Intel's OSPRay ray tracing team using a volume renderer from Intel's OSPRay CPU ray tracer which was incorporated into ParaView for rendering. The adaptive mesh refinement structure of the data is directly volume rendered without resampling.

Credits:
Cambridge: Paul Shellard, Juha Jaykka
Intel: Carson Brownlee, Ingo Wald, James Jeffers
GRChombo: Markus Kunesch, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Pau Figueras

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