Barnes referred to the ``Antennae'' as the ``Rosetta Stone'' of
interacting galaxies. Indeed, this particular system appears to hold a
certain fascination for researchers in the field, starting with Toomre
and Toomre's simple computer models in the early 1970s; (tenuous) parallels may
be drawn between their attempts to decipher the crossed tails of NGC
4038/9 and the early efforts to unravel the secrets of the
hieroglyphs. However, as should be clear from this report, a great
body of research is concentrated on gaining a comprehensive
understanding of the ``Antennae''. While previous modeled encounters
have given promising results, there still exist basic discrepancies
between model and observation which must be resolved before this
comprehensive understanding can be claimed.
Although my contribution to this field was limited, I feel that my
work on the 3D dimensional visualisation of data is of considerable use to
researchers. Sim2Oogl is very user friendly and easily
modified, a simple but effective tool. The fruits of model matching
were less tangible, but I firmly believe that a level of
sophistication is possible in automating our matching process which
has been absent in other attempts.