Well.... I could, I suppose, make maps my "thing" in terms of primary attempted contribution.
On the down side, I've got Celestia installed but no darn idea how to make "addons" for it.
On the plus side I've got Gimp, and know very well how to use it; I could make transparent maps so it would be very easy to overlay them on one another to make maps that show relative locations.
One thing would help more than you might think, and ought to be fairly simple to do; could we agree to always put the direction toward the center of the milky way at the top of the map, the same way terrestrial maps do with North?
Oh ... w/r/t 3-space trig? I can bang out code to do that in about an hour. I'm doing stuff *WAY* more complicated than that with n-space trig and n-space partial differentials and n-space correction vectors (for N in the thousands or hundreds of thousands often as not) for my job. 3? 3 is EASY. The hardest part for me would be figuring out how to get it onto a web page.
On the down side, I've got Celestia installed but no darn idea how to make "addons" for it.
On the plus side I've got Gimp, and know very well how to use it; I could make transparent maps so it would be very easy to overlay them on one another to make maps that show relative locations.
One thing would help more than you might think, and ought to be fairly simple to do; could we agree to always put the direction toward the center of the milky way at the top of the map, the same way terrestrial maps do with North?
Oh ... w/r/t 3-space trig? I can bang out code to do that in about an hour. I'm doing stuff *WAY* more complicated than that with n-space trig and n-space partial differentials and n-space correction vectors (for N in the thousands or hundreds of thousands often as not) for my job. 3? 3 is EASY. The hardest part for me would be figuring out how to get it onto a web page.