This is my attempt at a straight-up Star Wars one: http://lmnopc.com/mf/
I made this dumb thing like seven years ago based on a CSS starfield codepen that was floating around: https://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/GKflw
I made this dumb thing like seven years ago based on a CSS starfield codepen that was floating around: https://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/GKflw
Somebody should debug this.
Did anyone do a Star Trek one for TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT? Most of the ones I saw in the past were only half-correct - they did the "stars moving in streaks parallel to your direction of motion", but did not replicate the "individual streaks show Doppler-shift-like colors".
(See e.g.: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/d/d8/US..., notice the color bands on the "stars".)
I saw something about when you travel near speed of light, lengths appear to contract. Maybe the lights becoming lines is just based on long exposure in photography of moving lights.
"Appear" in this context, though, doesn't mean "what you actually see". What you actually see is an apparent rotation of an object moving by you at relativistic speed. This is called Penrose-Terrell rotation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation
Note also that the effect is only along the direction of relative motion; appearances transverse to the relative motion are unchanged.
> Maybe the lights becoming lines is just based on long exposure in photography of moving lights.
I think the "lights becoming lines" in sci-fi depictions is based on a Newtonian picture of what things would look like if you were moving through a space filled with stars at a speed much faster than light. Which of course has nothing to do with actual physics as we understand it today.