The camera points into the direction we will fly to later on. Camera parameters remain fixed for this and all subsequent relativistic images. The lens covers a horizontal field of view of approximately 47 degrees. That's a medium wide angle. The image to the left displays the scene as seen by an observer rushing ahead at 99 percent of the speed of light.
Image processing uses only bi-linear interpolation.
99 percent ahead, supersampling This is the same scene as above, but image quality is substantially enhanced by a 2x2 supersampling scheme in the rendering process. 99 percent behind The observer is still moving into the same direction as above, but now we're not looking ahead but into the opposite direction. Objects behind look vastly enlarged. Here we are limited by the resolution of our source images used to render this picture, yielding a rather dull scene. Including Colour Transformation Oddly enough, while geometric transformations are the most popular effects when it comes to high speed travel, they are by no means the dominant effects in the visual perception of a fast moving observer.