[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Knapp]

On Jan 3, 2008 1:47 AM, Thad Coons <tocoons at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/1/08, Greg <greg at nokes.name> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Have you played with StarGen [1] by Jim Burrows? It's based on the old
> > Accrete system as I recall, plays well with *nix, Mac and Winders, and
> > generates a nice HTML output detailing out the stellar systems.
> >
> > [1] http://home.comcast.net/~brons/NerdCorner/StarGen/StarGen.html
>
>
> My version of Windows choked on some non-standard part of it.  I tried out
> the
> web version. The difficulty is that it takes only one input parameter, star
> mass, and generates everything else from that. I don't have an easy way to
> correlate that to the spectral type.
> I am looking at Gillett's
> World-Building<http://www.amazon.com/World-Building-Science-Fiction-Writing-Stephen/dp/0898797071>book
>  which appears to be fairly close to what I'm looking for. One of the
> reviewers mentioned that he had put the equations in a spreadsheet and liked
> playing with the results. That sounds like what I'd like to do.
>

I am looking into using worldgen.pdf paper to write a program to make
systems. Any thoughts on that?
I would be happy to share it with anyone here. I will only need it as
a one shot deal.
Douglas E Knapp