INTEGRATION: GRAVITY part 2

The study continued.

GRAVITATIONAL pull

Like the Moon pulling on Earth’s water to create tides, moons can create other visible interactions through gravity. One of them is shown in the NASA image below on Saturn where Prometheus pulls on Saturn’s F ring. The not only adds visual interest and variation, but adds integration by showing the effect the large moon has on its surroundings.

GRAVITATIONAL LENSING

Next we’ll look at more warping with gravity, but in a different way. Gravitational lensing is the warping of space with mass:

https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2017/20/954-Video.html?keyword=Gravitational%20Lensing

The visualization below from NASA shows a simulation of a large mass moving through space causing gravitational lensing:

One film to render gravitational lensing is Interstellar. It’s used for their two massive space objects: the worm hole and the black hole. Notice how stars behind the objects “bend and orbit“ them as they move through space. Best viewed full screen to see the movement of small stars:

Star Trek Beyond takes this concept of being spacetime to a another level with more visual interest: combining gravitational lensing with the look of a speeding bullet under water

For more on the gravitational lensing effects on the black hole’s accretion disk in the interstellar example above, check out This visualization and explanation page from NASA:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326