Advertised, now delivered. An interactive Elite style star map with octodecillion stars.So actually quite a bit bigger than was promised. Bonus thoughts included.
In this lightly technical paper, an algorithm is introduced to create procedurally generated Elite syle star maps with quadrillions of stars or more. As a bonus, a mega-maze is also presented.
No Mans Sky was a flop, but maybe not for the reason you think. The core reasons is that procedural generation does not create content for you. You have to.
Celestia picture of the hour
This picture was created with Celestia virtual planetarium. Click to see in full. A new image is generated every hour, the object, the time and the direction is randomly chosen. It is not that simple, but that's the gist of it.
