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Click on picture to shrink.

Shrink Toolbars in Netscape Communicator, or click on Fullscreen in Internet Explorer and click on Fullscreen a second time when you want to finish.

This is a typical frame from the relativistic flight simulator. The objects that you see are actually cubes, but because they are rushing towards you at about 95% of the speed of light, their appearance is considerably distorted. The leading face of the nearest cube looks like the sector of a circle since it is 'really' passing you due left. By 'really' we mean from the point of view of a stationary observer temporarily at your location, though of course everything is relative. There is a simple speedometer at the top.



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The picture shown above is 560x420 pixels in size, The small version of it is 214x160 pixels. The expansion factor is about 2.618, or the square of the golden ratio.

As you can see, quite a lot of detail is lost during shrinkage, particularly with a wire-frame drawing. In fact, too much is lost even in the shrinkage from 640x480 to 560x420 pixels. For this reason, the picture is actually a cut-out and not the complete screen.

The picture was produced on an EGA screen, but you are probably looking at it with VGA. The conversion produces a few aliassing effects in the vertical direction. EGA is essential because it has a frame buffer which is not available in VGA if the program is written in QBasic.