The publicatoin “This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now, opens an external URL in a new window” by Viktoria Helm, Thomas Juffmann und Peter Schattschneider, printed in Scientific American, attracts a great deal of attention.Not only has this article been read nearly 40,000 times, but a German translation was also published in Spektrum der Wissenschaft, opens an external URL in a new window. A Chinese translation can be found on cnBeta, opens an external URL in a new window, the Taiwanese knowledge platform for technology, telecommunications, media, and the Internet. Furthermore, LiveScience, opens an external URL in a new window, a well-known English-language online science news website, has reported on it..

The Scientific American article on the Terrell effect is based on the original publication A snapshot of relativistic motion: visualizing the Terrell-Penrose effect, opens an external URL in a new window (reposiTUm), published in Communication Physics 8 (2025) 161 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02003-6, opens an external URL in a new window).