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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] So, er, inspired by [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/7/1523.html]Masao[/URL], and spurred by wanting to know where a hypothetical Trek show would start, I've returned to the thankless (and reather silly) task of trying to come up with a map of Star Trek. My focus will be TOS/movie era sites with an eye towards later expansion to include TNG and DS9. Also asking after [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0743437705/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-7885910-4297416]Mandel's Star Charts[/URL] in [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/6/2589.html]this thread[/URL] got me to thinking that I ought to give it another crack. Since this is a 'creative' project (and certainly is in line with the "nothing better to do" mandate) I didn't feel like it belonged in the SS&T forum. [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/bX-3DTrekGalactic-001b.jpg[/IMG] And so I started with the above trying to work out Mandel's galactic coordinate system which, I'm still not sold on. But also intending to pull as much as I could into my 3D program for great cartography this is a massive object scaled such that one unit would be the equivalent of one LY. [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/bX-3DTrekLocalStars-003.jpg[/IMG] After several evenings of relearning [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/10/3693.html]VRML[/URL] and then wrestling with the data, I managed to get a subset of the Hipparchos data into my program. It ain't exactly convenient, but it does give me much more control over the way things look than, say, Celestia. And so what I'd really like to do at this point is to maybe collaborate with somebody, or several somebodies here who might be able to help establish where things are in Star Trek. (Please don't just point me to Christian Ruhl's st.dimension site. It's a fantastic site and an incredible resource, but my eyes have been marinating in his Scandanavian thoroughness for the past week or so.) This is the stuff I've never been any good at. So if anyone has a short list (10, 50) of Star Trek stars/systems and what/where those fit with real star data/names/coordinates. I'd love to hear from you. Also feedback on aesthetics would be appreciated. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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