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Bajor-Earth: 107 Light Years Earth-Romulas:50 light years Bajor-Cardassia:5.25 light years SB375-Bajor:25 light years SB375-Earth:87 light years Bajor-Romulas:120 light years Qu'nos-Bajor:125 light years Qu'nos-Romulas:60 light years Galmaron Core-Romulas:45 light years W359-Earth:7.9 light years Typhon Sector-Earth:75 light years Typhon Sector-Bajor:100 light years RNZ-Typhon Sector:40 light years Earth-Briar Patch:175 light years New Hamilton Colony-Earth:145 light years Earth-Cardassia:112.25 light years Earth-Breen:125 light years Breen-Cardassia:40 light years
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Will Someone on this site Please make a map based on these figures of mine as I would like to see what it would physically look like.
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You mean you want someone to sit down and work out a set of complicated spacial coordinates, which enables ach of the specified points to be the exact distance you give? All together now: "do it yourself!"
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I don't think anybody here minds helping out from time to time, but you've got to realize what a major undertaking it would be to do something like that, and do it well. I work with Photoshop every day, and to get all the measurements right and make something presentable would be a couple days work at least.
This really isn't feasable as "favor" material.
Why don't you draw something up and scan it?
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Well, Darkstar, I can probably find the time to come up with Cartesian coordinates for your calculations, but there are a few problems which make it impossible, at least unless you provide some more info.
1. Starting points. I need to know the starting Cartesian coordinates for at least two points. Without those, the entire map could be rotated in any direction and still be "correct."
2. Each point must be connected to at least 3 other points. 1 point means that there'll be an entire circle that would be correct. 2 points means that two possible locations that would be correct. 3 is the absolute minimum.
And even then, I may have to fudge the numbers a bit in order to get them to work.
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How in the world did you get "Galmaron" out of "Galorndon"?
And Krenim's right. Technically, coordinates and a map could be drawn from your numbers, but it would require some invention on the part of the calculator...
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It's impossible to create anything resembling accuracy for even a 2-D map without TRIANGULATION, at the very least.
That means, it's not enough to know the distances between two related points, or even two related points to each other. You need at LEAST three to create a triangulation.
For instance, to plot a map for Earth-Qo'nos, knowing ONLY distanced you'd need not only the distance from Earth to Qo'nos, but ALSO the distances of both of those points relative to some other point, say Romulus, to get a general direction.
You'd need at least
Earth-Qo'nos Earth-Romulus and Romulus-Qo'nos
To add any other points, you'd need at least TWO reference distances. One is USELESS, because it could be in ANY direction.
And a 3-D map would require even more common distances.
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