Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Project Hail Mary is my favourite movie of the year, and while many people have made videos explaining time dilation due to travelling close to the speed of light, nobody has tried to visualise how the universe appears to warp due to relativistic aberration. I wanted to create these visuals to give you an idea of what it would look like at these speeds, even without a warp drive or hyperspace nothing looks right.

The Model used in the render tests is available here, thanks to Quake for sharing:
sketchfab.com/3d-models/project-hail-mary-ship-6ab223b7be274f7ab473ca4aafa8a20d

The browser based visualization tool is here: dmytry.github.io/space
Go fast, see the big bang

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