Star3

For those of you who are interested in 3D starmaps, eighter you are a SF fan or want to create a interstellar game or mayby interested in future exploration of nearby stars, this is a little program that generate a VRML file so you can explore it from your favorite browser. You can use it to plot trade routes or colonization routes, se the samples below. Star3 is a small Windows utility which will read in the Version 3 Gliese data, accept user input for various filter criteria and outputs a VRML file with the results. It will also allow you to set the origin to something other than the sun. It can display lines between stars, based on different criterias.

View samples {about 10K each}. VRML97 View of all stars within 5pc, Lines showing all routes between stars within the maximum travel distance set to 2.5 pc Shortest distance colonization Lines showing colonization from closest nearby already colonized star, origin from SUN. Maximum travel distance set to 2.5 pc Close Up view Close up view. Same parameters as above. Rapid colonization Each colonized star will immediatly try to colonize all stars within the maximum travel distance 2.5 pc. Slow colonization Each colonized star will try to colonize One additional star within the maximum travel distance 2.5 pc on each calculation turn. VRML1 sample Note that VRML1 does not support billboards, so text vill not be readable from some angles.

Example of VRML97 model   {about 100K}- all stars within 5pc that can be colonized from nearest already colonized world, within the maximum travel distance 2.5 pc.

Download Star3 self extracting Zip-file

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Instructions: 1. start the Star3 program. A dialog box will appear. 2. Specify the path to the Gliese3 file A new box will appear 3. Select parameters and Press OK. (If you keep the "include HTML output" a HTML file with stardata will also be created) You will be prompted for output file name 4. Specify output file name. When output file is generated a dialog box will appear as notification. 5. Now the file is ready for viewing. (It may take some time if you select a large volume.)