Fig. 3
Formation of an image in curved space-time. Left panel: 3D visualization of the photon trajectories in the curved space-time starting from the star and ending at the observer’s image plane. Right panel: image that the observer sees using the Cartesian
and ŷ coordinates. For illustrative purposes, the neutron star surface is covered with a chessboard pattern.
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