Black hole animations

Version 4.1 (3.1 KB) by Nicolas Douillet
Two functions to create .gif animations of a black holes with the paths of an object passing throught their horizons.
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Updated 6 Aug 2024
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For pedagogic / scientific diffusion purposes.
F5 to run and create the .gif animation file that will appear in the same directory as you registered this .m file.
Surface to model the black hole is a catenoid.
Parameters -like the ones for the display- may be tuned in the file header.
Please don't forget to rate this code if it helped you. Thanks ;-)

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Nicolas Douillet (2026). Black hole animations (https://github.com/NicolasDouillet/Kerr_black_hole_animation/releases/tag/v4.1), GitHub. Retrieved .

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Created with R2019b
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4.1

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4.0

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3.0

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2.1

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2.0

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1.1

Some code cleaning
1.0.0

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