This is the first official release of Visualizing Gravitational Lensing, an interactive, browser-based WebGL tool designed to illustrate the distortion of light by cosmic structures.
Key Features in v1.0.0:
- Real-Time Ray Tracing: Custom GLSL shaders perform inverse ray shooting to render lensing distortions.
- Diverse Lens Profiles: Toggle between Point Mass, NFW Halos (Dark Matter clusters), NIE Elliptical Halos, and HSW Universal Voids.
- Interactive Depth: Multi-plane parallax effects simulate 3D distance between the observer, the lens, and background galaxies.