The movies generated for these web pages are created using POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) and a set of movie-making tools on a Silicon Graphics workstation with four R4400 processors and 256 megabytes of RAM. Perl, a scripting language, is used to generate the set of sequential images for making the movies.
In order to illustrate the relativistic effects of Lorentz contraction, Chee Hoo employ the scaling function in POV-Ray to illustrate the various extent of changes to the dimension of an object in the direction of motion. However, scaling alone is not sufficient in dealing with aberration. Illustrating this particular relativistic effect is a complex procedure and involves many complicated manipulations. At this point, Wern Miin steps in to produce an equation governing the transformation of points undergoing aberration (refer to the SRP report written by Soo Wern Miin). With this solution in mind, Chee Hoo approached the problem by slicing up objects using the intersection function in POV-Ray in order to decompose them into small cuboids. These cuboids are then treated as points in space and translated to their new positions using the aberration equation (refer to the SRP report written by Yian Chee Hoo).
Our SOL Control System is actually a thinly disguised version of the CN-Tower in Toronto, designed for POV-Ray by J.R. Walter. The house was designed by L. Anderson. Both excellent images were entries in the Internet Ray Tracing Competition held in October 1995.