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The visualisation of objects moving at relativistic speeds has been a populartopic of study since Special Relativity's inception. While the standardexposition of the theory describes certain shape-changing effects, such as theLorentz-contraction, it makes no mention of how an extended object would appearin a snapshot or how apparent distortions could be used for measurement.Previous work on the subject has derived the apparent form of an object, oftenmaking mention of George Gamow's relativistic cyclist thought experiment. Here,a rigorous re-analysis of the cyclist, this time in 3-dimensions, is undertakenfor a binocular observer, accounting for both the distortion in apparentposition and the relativistic colour and intensity shifts undergone by a fastmoving object. A methodology for analysing binocular relativistic data is thenintroduced, allowing the fitting of experimental readings of an object'sapparent position to determine the distance to the object and its velocity.This method is then applied to the simulation of Gamow's cyclist, producingself-consistent results.

Gamow's Cyclist: A New Look at Relativistic Measurements for a Binocular Observer