About This Site
Information about this site
This site was made possible by the generous support of Michael Scott.
The SXS project is supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the NSF, and NASA.
Content Management System
The latest version of this website is built with the open-source Content Management System Joomla!.
Tools
Download software tools useful for navigating this site:
- Adobe Reader for reading PDF files
- Flash Player for viewing Flash animations
Copyright
Except for materials credited to other sources, all content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial license. You may use, copy and distribute the contents of this website for non-commercial uses, provided that the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University are credited as the source and, when possible, by a link to this website. For full terms and conditions, click the icon below.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.5 License.
The design of the current version of the website and some of the graphics are copyright of Siliconian.
Credits
Computer Programs Used
In the preparation of this site, we used the following open-source (free) software:
- Dokuwiki user-updatable web pages
- POV-Ray three-dimensional graphics creator
- ImageMagick graphics manipulation tool
- Gimp graphics editing tool
- Linux Redhat operating system
- Apache web server
- MySQL database software
Sounds
The sounds found on this site were created by Teviet Creighton.
Text
The text on this site was written by Michael Boyle, a member of the SXS group, currently at Cornell.
Logo
The new SXS logo is designed by Siliconian. The inspiration came from the light cone as a representation of spacetime.