What do we call this phenomenon?

[Archimbaust]

Greetings, Explorers!

I am certain this has been discussed a lot (edit: apparently not "a lot"), I am just not sure how to refer to it:

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Resulting skybox:

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Just to make sure: The thing when you see straight vertical borders between fields of brighter and less bright stars on the skybox/galaxy map, at a 90° angle with the galactic plane.
Stellar Forge acting up, it seems.

Found a thread about it called "Star Wall". Posted there earlier:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123712&highlight=star+wall
Found some other threads, too.

So, "Stellar Wall"?

Anyone?

 

[Murishani]

I call it a bug

 

[Asp Explorer]

It's the North/South Divide. The light ones are all shandy drinkers

 

[TartanDragon]

Image 3 is BMW illness.

I'd get that seen to.

 

[Lupin]

You did ask

Personally seen what you list as skybox.
Normally happens when you get close edge of the spiral arm. See here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=148555


This is a phenomenon:

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[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

The way stellar forge seems to work is that most of the galaxy is divided into cubes, with each cube having differing propensities for different star types. So some cubes may have very few stars at all, others (e.g. near the core) have lots, and the types of stars varies - giving us the "neutron fields" and other areas of high prevalence of star types. The neutron fields in particular seem to have a lot of B class stars, which I think is what you are seeing there.

TL;DR - its the B class stars in the neutron field.

 

[Archimbaust]

1st CMDR killed at Sag A*

That Sag A* griefer killed you?
Or was it the awesome SMBH?

Cheers anyway!

 

[Archimbaust]

Indeed, it's a BMW decal of sorts!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It looks much prettier in the new galaxy map, for sure.

I like to call it a Rice Krispie Square cluster.

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

That Sag A* griefer killed you?
Or was it the awesome SMBH?

Cheers anyway!

Griefer... hopefully they'll switch to xbox I've another 10k to go on my there again and back trip.

 

[trollson]

Spatial Quantization?

The suggestion is that space is divided into zones, with zones having different properties used by the stellar forge. This produces hard edges at the boundaries of zones, which may be visible in stellar types or densities.

To avoid these artifacts the boundaries need to be made more "fuzzy" by considering a zone and its adjacent neighbours together, and blending the properties across the boundaries - for example, each point in space effectively has local properties which are the weighted mean of the four nearest zone, weighted inversly by distance to their centres.

Unfortunately, I don't see how FD could fix this now without resetting the Galaxy.

 

[excalibus]

interestingly, i get a lot of cubes in my 'slybox' not on the galaxy map but in SC and normal flight modes... Massive cubes around some areas, typically where nebula are, and yet at other times as i get closer to a given nebula it actually takes the cloud shape and colouring of the nebula similar to how it appears in the galaxy map for me...

Its a rather odd thing IMHO