# What is Warp Factory?

Warp Factory is a set of functions written in MATLAB which is designed to model warp spacetimes using Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Its development is focused on providing a numerical framework to analyze the physicality of spacetime, which is a unique focus in the development of warp solutions. 

## Key Features of Warp Factory

* Energy condition evaluations for the point-wise Null, Weak, Dominant, and Strong
* Metric scalar evaluation for the shear, expansion, and vorticity. 
* 3D finite difference solver for the stress-energy tensor
* GPU utilization 

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The current release of Warp Factory is designed around evaluating spacetimes within a Cartesian grid only.
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In the future, more features will be added to Warp Factory.

## License

Warp Factory is published using the MIT license. **We do ask that all users of Warp Factory please cite their use of the code in published work**. See [this page](https://applied-physics.gitbook.io/warp-factory/general/citing-warp-factory) for a citation format.

## Development Team

* Christopher Helmerich
* Jared Fuchs

In addition, we would like to thank the following people for their contributions of providing methods and reviewing the codebase:

* Alexey Bobrick
* Luke Sellers
* Brandon Melcher
* Justin Feng
* Gianni Martire