[1/4/4] Lorentz contraction
The length of a fast moving object is observed to be shorter than usual.
In order to show this physical phenomena, we observe two thin pencil rockets; one is laying rest in a space and the other moves with semi-light speed near the resting one. For each given speed of the rocket, I generated a pair of a movie and the corresponding CG image which is the image shot extracted from the movie when two rockets approach more closely.
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[1/4/4/1] Movie: The speed of the object is 0.1 x light speed.
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[1/4/4/2] The speed of the object is 0.1 x light speed (the ratio of the lengths is 99.5%).
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[1/4/4/3] Movie: The speed of the object is 0.3 x light speed.
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[1/4/4/4] The speed of the object is 0.3 x light speed (the ratio of the lengths is 95.4%).
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[1/4/4/5] Movie: The speed of the object is 0.3 x light speed.
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[1/4/4/6] The speed of the object is 0.5 x light speed (the ratio of the lengths is 86.6%).
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[1/4/4/7] Movie: The speed of the object is 0.7 x light speed.
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[1/4/4/8] The speed of the object is 0.7 x light speed (the ratio of the lengths is 71.4%).
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[1/4/4/9] Movie: The speed of the object is 0.9 x light speed.
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[1/4/4/10] The speed of the object is 0.9 x light speed (the ratio of the lengths is 43.6%).
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