Dear TP-devel folks: Is anyone familiar with Samuel Penn's world and starmap generation projects?
http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/worldgen It looks like he's started from a Traveller-like starmap database, and expanded it to randomly generate worlds, systems, names, and planetary surface maps and navigate the generated galaxy with a REST-style http resource browser. His development environment is Java/Eclipse, if it matters, and he generates Celestia-compatible surface maps. I'll plan to look over his source code and drop him a note; it looks like his general orientation to re-use is to explicitly label his code and docs with a BSD lic. Any thoughts on his project? Does it seem familiar? I'm looking for my next step after the system name generator ( http://tpnames.appspot.com) and was considering planet descriptions and disk pictures. At the same time, I've been trying to scan the rule-sets to see if I can figure out what parts of the description ought to be (or might be) driven by the ruleset, versus put in for random flavor. I haven't managed to get very far in that direction. To start, I plan that the default system generator will generate a single significant terrestrial-ish planet per system, and take options for greater variety of planet and system generation. Thanks all, Jeff Miller
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