Pocket Atlas of Remote Planets

[ljcooke]

No ideas yet but I'm in.

[ljcooke]

A hint of an idea: Presenting exoplanet data and similar in the style of Judith Schalansky's Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands.

[hugovk]

Great idea! You could generate imagined images of each planet.

[ikarth]

I approve.

[ljcooke]

Sample chapter list:

1. Confringo (Epic 201445392 C)
2. Sól (Hd 21693 C)
3. Sinthgunt (Kepler-9 D)
4. Demeter (Hd 122430 B)
5. Furnunculus (Epic 201855371 B)
6. Orchid (Hd 92788 B)
7. Alohomora (Corot-23 B)
8. Lotus (Kepler-281 B)
9. Quietus (Hd 166724 B)
10. Þrúðr (Kepler-390 B)

[ljcooke]

I'm maintaining the source code at araile/nanogenmo-atlas.

Currently it pulls names from a few Corpora word lists and pairs them with a random selection of planets from the Open Exoplanet Catalogue (OEC). I'm planning to use more of this data to generate a chapter about each planet.

There is a make stats command which prints statistics about the OEC data. This includes the "earliest settled" and "latest settled" years, which I'm generating based on the distance of each planet's star from our own, and the assumption that we will mysteriously learn to travel at the speed of light in the Future.

[hugovk]

I wonder if you could pull in some demographic info from Wikipedia but change the years and proper nouns:

In 2353, Confringo's population was around 5.5 million, with the majority living in its southern regions.[8] In terms of area, it is the eighth largest planet in Epic 201445392 and the most sparsely populated planet in the Epic 201445392 Union. Confringo is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in the capital Ferdasia, local governments in 317 municipalities,[9] and an autonomous region, the Trandal Islands. Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Ferdasia metropolitan area, which produces a third of the country's GDP. Other large cities include Rempart, Krut, Luou, Kylajaki, Hilta, and Piok.

[ljcooke]

Oh I like this!

[ljcooke]

For #17: I'm using Python 3.

[ljcooke]

Now I have it outputting HTML and Markdown. I'll regenerate the story here as I progress: https://github.com/araile/nanogenmo-atlas/blob/output/Atlas-of-Remote-Planets.markdown

[hugovk]

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

The official NaNoGenMo lorem ipsum :)

[suisea]

omg meow @araile

[ljcooke]

😸

[ljcooke]

I abandoned it. Next year perhaps.

[suisea]

:+1:

[suisea]

github's emoji are all auto-white............ :)))))))))))

[ljcooke]

:-1: