Beholder presents PLANETARIUM
a puzzle story

Planetarium Backstage

The Planetarium project came about with the assistance of the following people and software.

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Humans

Planetarium is a Beholder project.

Proofreader

  • Judith Bagai

Puzzle Advisors/Mathematicians

  • Paul Earwicker AFIMA (at DERA Farnborough)
  • Dr Dave Cohen (at Royal Holloway)

Development Environment

  • Content Team/Techies at Planet Internet UK
  • Continuity and proofreading by Thérèse Hackett
  • Numerous Thai restaurants
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Shareware/Freeware

The following freeware and shareware contributed to the project.
  • Ray-Tracing: POV-Ray
  • Text Editing: Programmer's File Editor (now no longer supported)
  • Scripts: Perl 5
  • Animated .gifs: Andy Wardley's multigif
  • POV-Ray Cogs: based on Cogmaker output

Planetarium runs on Unix. It's hosted by several friends on a non-commercial basis — thanks to them this site is a haven free of advertising.

The ragged 1990's HTML was finally tidied up in 2006 using the MacOS X port of HTML Tidy.

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