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Re: An alternative presentation...
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>Date: 2/11/12 9:01 a.m.

In Response To: An alternative presentation... (OldNick)


: Sad to hear that they've messed up the starmap so badly. Makes me wish I'd
: completed my own multi-universe mapping project…

: Without wishing to steal Stephen's well-deserved thunder (how could I
: possibly do that : ), here are a few screenshots from my own
: neglected/abandoned project to do something similar in 3D. It's a
: hand-flyable model of the local stellar and galactic neighbourhood, with
: the local galaxies mapped in rather sketchily. Like Stephen, I ran into
: serious problems trying to find a good way of representing large-scale
: galactic structure, and I never got around to solving them.

: The first picture shows the view from the solar system looking in the general
: direction of Epsilon Eridani (Reach's star), which appears just above the
: centre labelled '18 Eps Eri K2V'. The HUD elements are all functional
: rather than decorative, providing depth cues and 3D spatial awareness.

:

: The second image is the reciprocal of the first, with the viewpoint at
: Epsllon Eridani looking back towards the Sun. Since the Sun is centred,
: the depth cue display shows a countdown clock indicating that in the
: current 'gear' I'd take just over 3 seconds (at 1 parsec per second) to
: reach the Sun if I 'dropped the clutch', so to speak. Speed is
: continuously variable from a few km/sec (for messing about in low
: planetary orbit) to multiple megaparsecs/sec (useful for getting about on
: the intergalactic scale), and you fly the viewpoint around using the
: mouse.

:

: It's a C++ application using GLUT (which just goes to show how out of date I
: am), running on my ageing MacBook Pro. The (scratch) database is based on
: a filtered version of the Hipparcos catalogue plus added nearby stars, a
: total of about 100000 objects, plus (I think) 20-30 nearby galaxy
: placeholders. Everything is drawn to scale. Of course, they don't all get
: drawn at once since the idea is to give a naturalistic 'human-eye' view,
: rather than a schematic map.

: I'd intended to develop it as a commercial product which would allow SF fans
: to label stars with fictional names and explore their favourite universes
: (and earn me some badly-needed money), but when I started talking to SF
: authors about it I realised that I really hadn't thought through the IP
: implications. It came as a bit of a blow.

: The images have turned out a little smaller than full size. I'm afraid I'm a
: total noob at this image uploading/hosting lark.

That's a pretty neat idea. The display looks busy but it might not be as bad in motion. I often use an astronomical app called Celestia which is free to download and it's great for gallivanting around the stars. Space is necessarily a 3D affair and I like the look of my map in 2D just as I liked the Star Trek: Star Charts book some of my map is based upon. I love the 2D look but I fully understand its limitations as well.

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teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 8:27 p.m.
     O.OZackDark 2/8/12 8:57 p.m.
           Re: O.OStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 9:10 p.m.
                 No GPU?ZackDark 2/8/12 9:16 p.m.
                       Re: No GPU?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 9:50 p.m.
                             Re: No GPU?ZackDark 2/9/12 10:02 a.m.
                                   Re: No GPU?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 11:42 a.m.
                                         Re: No GPU?ZackDark 2/9/12 12:05 p.m.
                                               Re: No GPU?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 1:54 p.m.
     Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwaySeraph XXVII 2/8/12 10:21 p.m.
           Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 5:40 a.m.
     Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayDEEP NNN 2/9/12 6:31 a.m.
           Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 6:50 a.m.
                 Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayDEEP NNN 2/9/12 7:02 a.m.
                       Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 8:01 a.m.
     Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayDragonclaws 2/9/12 6:25 p.m.
           Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 6:35 a.m.
                 Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayPaused 2/10/12 3:23 p.m.
                       Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayZackDark 2/10/12 5:09 p.m.
                       Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 5:14 p.m.
                             Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayPaused 2/10/12 5:39 p.m.
                                   Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 6:44 p.m.
                                         Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayPaused 2/10/12 7:55 p.m.
                                               Re: teaser Galaxy Map underwayStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 9:45 p.m.
                                                     An alternative presentation...OldNick 2/10/12 10:49 p.m.
                                                           Re: An alternative presentation...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 9:01 a.m.
                                                                 Re: An alternative presentation...OldNick 2/11/12 11:52 a.m.
                                                                       Re: An alternative presentation...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 12:24 p.m.



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