Comments on: 3D Starmaps

3D Starmaps

jiawen — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:52:10 -0800

3D Starmaps by Winchell Chung. (I knew him for his game illustrations before I ever knew about his starmaps.) The site contains lots of information about how to make 2D/3D starmaps from standard star tables, a nice selection of pre-existing maps and one of the best listings of 3D starmap software around.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:54:30 -0800

Huh... and I thought it would be 3D map to Keira Knightley's house.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:56:57 -0800

...but these are really cool, too, by the way.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:14:52 -0800

Might want to check that last link.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:26:37 -0800

Yeah, Metafilter is not a reliable source. When I was a kid, this was the kind of thing I wanted computers for.

By: jiawen

jiawen — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:02:59 -0800

Crud. I meant 3D starmap software.

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:07:37 -0800

WINCH! What's UP? That drawing of a mobile howitzer you whipped up for me when I was 14 was a mitzvah, duder.

By: gally99

gally99 — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:48:09 -0800

Is there some in-joke that I'm missing, or are there really this many people that can't grasp the copy and paste commands?

By: DataPacRat

DataPacRat — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:17:28 -0800

The section of his site which I keep bookmarked are the Atomic Rockets pages, with all sorts of handy references on how to create your own realisticish spacefaring SF setting.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:57:39 -0800

Way to make yourself popular with your first comment there, gally99.

By: jiawen

jiawen — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:43:11 -0800

I thought of linking to the Atomic Rockets pages, maybe in a separate post, but it felt like that was getting too close to self-linking.

By: neuron

neuron — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:22:00 -0800

This sounds cool, but my Dell's screen is only 2D. I need one of those new Apple laptops with the 3D screen.

By: Nyrath

Nyrath — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:36:17 -0800

Shesh, I must be going blind. I totally missed this post when it went by. I'm Winchell Chung, and I thank Rachel Kronick for starting this thread. And Mr. Greenfield, I'm glad you liked the howitzer picture I did for you.