Re: [GZG] Space, Excel, and the reoccuring project

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:16:52PM -0500, Doug Evans wrote:

>What seems appropriate is a) figuring a way to get that info with each
star
>without having to manually repeat the process 300 times, b) give each
star
>a home coordinate pattern and a way to convert any location to the
given
>star's offsets, and c) come up with some guidance on choosing stars as
>empire starters: not too close, too far, roughly equal number of nearby
>stars to start empires.

I think you'd do much better to use a programming language than to mess
about with Excel. This sort of thing is dead easy in Perl, for example.

Coordinate transformations are relatively easy. I'll see what I can
knock together.

What exactly is "that info" for (a)? (b) is pretty easy. (c) is quite a
lot harder.

R
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