Procedural Galaxy

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I did a develop and made dis, a procedural galaxy that, well... gets procedurally generated. You can use your mouse to zoom in/out and look around. You can click on stars to get their specific information. It's inspired by the galaxy maps found in games like Elite Dangerous and Eve Online.

http://fransvanberendonk.com/procedural-galaxy/

Basicly I've made Templates and Fields for Spectral Classes and Subclasses, and looked up online what a realistic distribution scheme would be for these. This data is grouped under a page that renders then as JSON for the Javascript application to work with. I wrote that app in AngularJS, so I could add more controllers to it later. It also uses BabylonJS to calculate the number and position of stars and display them on screen, and assigns each a Spectral Class and Subclass after some shuffling of the dataset. Using a secondary controller only used in a ProcessModule for the CMS, I can broadcast events that redo the procedure using different variables (see screenshot below).

No particular purpose, just thought I'd share a cool side project that rolled out of my exploration of these JS frameworks in conjunction with PW.

 

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I'm sorry but I updated my entire website, so this link is no longer active.