Please read all this text. Much of the animation will be downloaded as you do so, so your time is not being wasted.
Here is a short clip of cine film taken from the relativistic flight simulator. Click on each frame to see the next. There are only ten frames to look at, after which you will return to this page, but you will see what a cube looks like as it passes you at 95% of the speed of light.
Take your time to download this sequence. As you look at each frame, another frame may be pre-downloaded in anticipation. Ignore this, but if you try to go too fast at first you may confuse the system. You can click on a frame at any time to see the next frame. After all ten frames are downloaded and in your web browser's buffer, you can run through it again at greater speed.
This sequence works entirely with HTM and GIF files, so it uses instantly available technology. It is a poor substitute for running RFS.BAS, but it might take you some time to find an MS-DOS computer, for example, and you will want to know if it is worth the trouble.
In Mosaic try Ctrl-K to enter 'kiosk mode' which will give you more screen area. In Netscape Communicator shrink the Toolbars. In Internet Explorer click on Fullscreen to give as large a picture area as possible and click on Fullscreen a second time when you want to finish.
The animation was converted from EGA to VGA and resized to fit the screen. Bits of lines go missing when we do this, so we must apologise for the inferior quality of the result. Run RFS.BAS for a decent display.
Once you work out how this animation is done, it might occur to you that we could just jump around within the same HTM file using #name tags. We've tried it, and the result looks poor in one popular web browser. Alternate jumping between two HTM files has also been tried, and it's no better. Every GIF frame really does need its own HTM holding file.