Six minutes of computer graphics animation were created at VisLab for the Australian Photonics video on Fibre Optics, produced by ITEMedia. The intended audience is High School students. The animations assist the description of photonic techniques such as Wave Division Multiplexing and the amplification of signals through special erbium doped fibres. Australia's connections to the USA go via New Zealand and Fiji to Hawaii. There are also undersea cables leaving Western Australia, from Perth and Port Headland.
Undersea cables appear to span countries in arcs.
The rest of the world comes into view, and we can see how optical fibre has been laid around the continents. The fast camera motion at this point means greater differences between the interlaced fields. This causes the picture to appear blurred. The animation ends with a complete view of the world. These graphics were created with the animation software Houdini by Ben Simons , Sydney VisLab.