Terran Republic Interstellar Plotter System

Introduction

TRIPS (Terran Interstellar Plotter System) is intended to be a stellar cartography system for loading stellar databases in well-known formats to:

1. view data in tabular form
2. Plot data in a 3 dimensional graph
3. Modify stellar data
4. Keep data organized in different sets based on purpose and interest
5. Use for either scientific or science fiction writing purposes (world building)

Installing

Detailed installation steps

Short Version

a. Down load one of the release versions from the release page.
b. unzip into a target direction of your choice
c. acquire data files from one of the data pages (TBD) and unzip into the ./files directory

Running

a. Once installed, the install directory is complete and independent. Nothing else needs to be installed
b. in the main director, run either
    - runme.bat (Windows version)
    - runme.sh (Mac/Linux version)        

See the User Manual in the Wiki

User Manual Home

Contributing

• Helping with programming
• Helping with documentation

Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.