Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Randall L Joiner wrote:
 
> AFAIK in my programming years, I remember running across a couple of
stellar
> generators.  It would spew out a random star, with a random, within
known
> astronomy parameters, number of planets, given orbits, moons, belts,
etc.  You
> could even, IIRC, get a specific age and what that system looked like.
 You
> could seed the initial variables, IIRC, like primary mass/type/age,
etc.

I don't have web access at this instant, but I'm sure I've got several
links like that on my website - see
<http://warbard.iwarp.com/links3.html>
and have a look at the Space Science/Astronomy links area.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -

> 
> With a little looking, I'm sure you could find it.  I even remember
one that
> was a really pretty screen saver, displaying the system through time
(orbits,
> ort cloud, comets, etc.).  The program generated several flat files
that were
> read by the screen-saver portion, with the flat files containing all
the info
> for the system.
> 
> Rand.
> 
> 
> >
> > I may need a catalog that gives solar masses. From that a table
> > (you've got to have a playing field to base things on) you get a
good
> > idea of how big the system is. A randomization factor for size of
> > star giving size of planets and thus moons would help. (Is there a
> > planetologist in the house?)
> >
>