05-26-2025, 02:08 AM
My dream would be to have a 3d map of the entire Terragen Sphere in every article which describes a particular location, which would automatically zoom in when you click on it. I've seen something similar elsewhere.
But it would be a lot of work, and require a lot of data, so it would be a long-term goal (for a tech-savvy volunteer). There are a billion stars in the Terragen Sphere, and thousands of interesting objects and locations - someone would have to input all that data from somewhere.
Another problem is that many of the locations of stars and objects in the Orion Spur and surrounding area are not yet known very accurately, so we would need to be updating the data all the time. This sort of thing has already happened several times in the twenty-five years of the project's existence; even the Gaia satellite data has fairly large error bars once you get a few hundred light years away.
But it would be a lot of work, and require a lot of data, so it would be a long-term goal (for a tech-savvy volunteer). There are a billion stars in the Terragen Sphere, and thousands of interesting objects and locations - someone would have to input all that data from somewhere.
Another problem is that many of the locations of stars and objects in the Orion Spur and surrounding area are not yet known very accurately, so we would need to be updating the data all the time. This sort of thing has already happened several times in the twenty-five years of the project's existence; even the Gaia satellite data has fairly large error bars once you get a few hundred light years away.