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Project Athens: EDMC plugin to automatically collect accurate science data from the galaxy and coordinate missions
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Blue 'i' ideas for photography [FEATURE] #73

Open Lance-Spacecat opened 4 years ago

Lance-Spacecat commented 4 years ago

The blue 'i' can be used to find photogenic places, here is a few ideas...

-Detecting rings around stellars, but ignore brown dwarves as those are rather common. -Barycentric pairs of ringed worlds, or planets with moons where both the planet and the moon have rings are very photogenic. (And I include a ringed giant with a ringed moon in this category) There needs to be variables involved: the size of the rings compared to the distance between the two bodies needs to be large enough for both to be fair visible from one another. -Exceptionally large ring systems on their own are very photogenic or noteworthy. Maybe the top 1-3% of the galaxy's rings? -Landable terraformables are exceptionally rare, well worth noticing.

NoFoolLikeOne commented 4 years ago

I've written some code to parse the galaxy data and produce some metrics for min, max, avg and stdev for various metrics and will set the thresholds for displaying Tourist Information to > 2 stdevs. That will give us the top/bottom 2.1%

I'll use this for rings and will look at density, radius, area, mass etc.. Interesting to note that thinnest ring is 1km wide.

Landable Terraformables are coded in now

Rings around stellars also. But will keep Brown Dwarves as those can be sexy too.

I'll see if I can check for ringed siblings, though that will be tricky with barycentres and working out distance will be tricky as some C rings can be invisible.

NoFoolLikeOne commented 4 years ago

@Lance-Spacecat what distance would you recommend between the rings?/bodies

Lance-Spacecat commented 4 years ago

About the rings around brown dwarves, the reason I don't recommend those is that they're very common around the heavier stars. So they're hardly noteworthy, unless they fit in the category of 'two ringed bodies in fairly close proximity', that's my opinion...

As for the -distance- between ringed bodies, that's a trick to figure out. Let's ignore for a moment the risk of outer rings sometimes being hard to see (it's pretty rare), you'd want the second body to have a ring taking a decent amount of space 'on screen' if nearly landed near the first body. So it'd be a proportion of outer-ring-size to second-body-distance, but I haven't the foggiest what's a good proportion, sorry. One'd need to look at a few in-galaxy examples to figure that one out.

Lance-Spacecat commented 4 years ago

Hmm, I just had an idea... What if we consider it 'the two ringed bodies look good in the same picture'. Then we could guesstimate them as the two bodies being no more than four ring-diameters apart, maybe? Give or take? Maybe draw that on a piece of paper and adjust?