Make constellations look more pleasing

remuladgryta / constellationgenerator

Generates a random starry sky with constellations

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Make constellations look more pleasing #12

Open remuladgryta opened 6 years ago

remuladgryta commented 6 years ago

Some problems with the current constellation forming algorithm:

The edges of real world constellations seldom intersect (the southern cross is a notable exception)
Generated constellations always have a tree-like structure. Real world constellations contain cycles.

We could probably make generated constellations look less artificial and more hand-crafted by using a different algorithm that takes these points into account.

remuladgryta commented 6 years ago

Another point about real world constellations: They seldom have very acute angles. If A, B and C are stars and A and B are close to each other but relatively far away from C, C is probably not connected to both of them.

remuladgryta commented 6 years ago

581ce8d introduces a "prettify" option which solves all of the issues stated above. Keeping this issue open in case we come up with more things to improve.