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I have downloaded two work-in-progress views of the galaxy (Galaxy Grid 1.gif & Galaxy Grid 2.gif).
After I get these shipshape, I plan to do a detailed view of "Federation Space".
I grabbed the galaxy picture and enemy territory borders from the website I posted earlier. However, I thought it looked better distorted into an isometric perspective view such as this. Also, using prismatic-transparent territory boundaries seems to work better.
The red line is the path of Voyager to date.
I welcome comments/assistance in getting this thing as canon as possible.
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Did you collaborate with him? He has a very well-organized system of maps, and seem to have good documentation. His main source of imagery seems to be "The Guide to the Galaxy" by von Henbest/Couper, but I cannot fine a reference for his alien territory markers.
Further in the site is a "top" view of what I call Near Federation Space - with the Federation and other prominent local empires/territories. I will be including said data in my close-up view. Is this yours? http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/maplocal_.jpg
Nice piece of work. I will post further work as I can.
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Mark Nguyen: I would love to use your Bridge imagery. Are you thinking of isometric views similar to the ones shown in the Star Trek Magazine? With the exception of the "Barbie-ized" Personnel therein, I find these extremely easy to conceptualize. Actually, I wanted to utilize a similar style to show various compartments and large equipment in my Voyager deck plans, but I don't have that kind of 3d skill.
Any takers?
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Ultra Magnus: After a lot of attempts to match screenshot underlays, I settled on Swiss 924 BT with 80% horizontal compression. Allowing for said compression, it is probably a dead-ringer for 911. I can't remember why I didn't use 911 - that was years ago on another project. And it is too late to change now - I have archives of projects in my done folder. (I keep hoping I'll come up with the financing to publish them).
The numbers on the maps themselves are still Arial, since this is a work-in-progress. I'll change them later. _________________________________________
Does anyone have the following sound-files: 1. The "zoom" sound effect heard in Stellar Cartography when a map or object on screen is "rotated". 2. The sounds of the touch pads being touched.
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Hey, Treknophyle... I have a bunch of equations that I've come up to represent the major powers of the galaxy. I don't suppose you could create a map like that based on them, could you?
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Mathematical equations. I wanted to display a map of the galaxy on my graphing calculator, so I came up with a set of parametric equations, one for each major power. They're mostly based on canon info from the show. I've posted the exact reasonings behind each equation somewhere here at Flare before, so if you want to have a look at them, they're somewhere around here.
Interested?
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In case you can't read the equations, basically, each equation is in the form:
X = r cos t + a Y = r sin t + b
That means the power is centered at (a,b), with a radius of r.
And feel free to round for the sake of simplicity. I have them so exact so they don't overlap if I zoom in on my graphing calculator.
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