What is the reason of gaps at x=0 and y=0 and three layers visible on vertical view? Problem with data presentation?
ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations
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Quirkiness of the StellarForge. There are gaps in where certain star types are generated in the procedural generator.
Speculation wrt to the suppressed star types along the X=0 and Z=0 was/is twofold:
a) there are sufficient manually authored systems around the bubble, so the FD's plan was to suppress certain proc-gen star types in the area around the bubble
b) while programming the suppression of the two axis an "OR" was used instead of an "AND", resulting in two suppressed lanes instead of one suppressed area
a) there are sufficient manually authored systems around the bubble, so the FD's plan was to suppress certain proc-gen star types in the area around the bubble
b) while programming the suppression of the two axis an "OR" was used instead of an "AND", resulting in two suppressed lanes instead of one suppressed area
What on Earth is going on with proto-stars there?
Very nice. I did something similar a few months back. I love what you're doing with the colouration and filtering out star types.
I also did some faux-3D animations of some of the highlights based on the same method:-
Praei Permit Lock Cluster
I also did some faux-3D animations of some of the highlights based on the same method:-
Praei Permit Lock Cluster
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Is that several overlapping spheres? Looks like at least four separate radius'
From the top down view I thought they were just simple spheres.
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I'm wondering about that as well. It's always possible I have a bug in my code that's causing strangeness here, but it's all the same code generating each of these maps, so I don't know what would be different about that one. I'm more inclined to believe it's a combination of sector differences, and player activity, especially since further form the bubble, you can see similarly brighter patches in some of the more travelled areas, limited to where players have passed through. Strange, but interesting. StellarForge has a lot of oddities that don't show up until you look at things this way.
EDIT: I suppose it's also possible there's something odd going on in the EDSM data, but I haven't seen any other evidence of that.
Very cool! 3D animated maps are a great idea!
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I see what you did there.........
Just did the same rendering and got the same artefacts:
Oh, that is some unusual squares
I don't see anything that could be different from the other type in term on how I save them.
Wow factor much?
... I need to do something with one of those. A poster, a graffiti, anything!
... I need to do something with one of those. A poster, a graffiti, anything!
Yep, five here. One top, one bottom and three on the central plane.
TIL that David Braben was planning these "future content" permit locks before the game was even released, back into the Kickstarter period - Link. Cool
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So, after being able to reproduce the same weird patterns in the TTS' distribution and Anthor checking the EDSM data I wondered what the ED galmap would show. The most apparent differences in TTS' distribution seem to be along sector borders, so I chose and compared the two sectors just south of Sol (Oochost with just around 60 TTS, and neighbouring Oochorrs with around 840) on the in-game galmap.Proto-stars:
Turns out SF really just does not to generate TTS (or only in very small numbers) in certain sectors (or sector stacks). While this seems similar to what we see with bright stars towards the core (creating those 'blocks' in the skybox) the distribution of the TTS-rich sectors themselves still seems odd.
Excellent, this is a strange and weird thing.
It's fair to say that my understanding of and guesses about the Forge's distribution of stars have been greatly enhanced / changed / debunked by these excellent maps!
It's fair to say that my understanding of and guesses about the Forge's distribution of stars have been greatly enhanced / changed / debunked by these excellent maps!