LGR - Space Engine Demonstration - Procedural Universe Simulator
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Date: 2022-04-14
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extragirth64
People say now all this -game- needs empire building with some on-the-ground gameplay and it will be perfect but I say Space Engine has not simulated enough, specifically destruction on a mass scale. I wanna see a supernova wiping out an entire solar system, slowing down time to see what happens when the firewall engulfs a gas giant or rocky planet. I wanna see two planets slamming into each other. I wanna see a small black hole eat a star or moon. Or just a regular asteroid hitting a planet, specifically Earth since it's already in the game.
There's a lot to do but once it's more fully realized you won't want a space strategy or action game anymore.
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People say now all this -game- needs empire building with some on-the-ground gameplay and it will be perfect but I say Space Engine has not simulated enough, specifically destruction on a mass scale. I wanna see a supernova wiping out an entire solar system, slowing down time to see what happens when the firewall engulfs a gas giant or rocky planet. I wanna see two planets slamming into each other. I wanna see a small black hole eat a star or moon. Or just a regular asteroid hitting a planet, specifically Earth since it's already in the game.
There's a lot to do but once it's more fully realized you won't want a space strategy or action game anymore.
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bigemugamer
Nice! I love these astronomy programs, some of my personal faves are starry night, colliding galaxies, stellarium and especially celestia. though i wish one could see things happen in real life such as Kepler's supernova which was visible in daylight during the 1500's or even the super massive black holes at the center of most (if not all) galaxies. and yes you CAN see black holes, or at least the accretion disk and jets that form when large amounts of matter fall into them.
edit: Just saw the back hole in the vid when i was wondering what that weird wind sound was at the end of it. lol =D
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Nice! I love these astronomy programs, some of my personal faves are starry night, colliding galaxies, stellarium and especially celestia. though i wish one could see things happen in real life such as Kepler's supernova which was visible in daylight during the 1500's or even the super massive black holes at the center of most (if not all) galaxies. and yes you CAN see black holes, or at least the accretion disk and jets that form when large amounts of matter fall into them.
edit: Just saw the back hole in the vid when i was wondering what that weird wind sound was at the end of it. lol =D
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mspenrice
Odd choice of dwarf planets. I guess the database for this was put together sometime around 2007 (and certainly, given the 2011 review, before New Horizons got to Pluto, therefore Ceres, Pluto and Eris were the only three? Sizewise, Haumea and Makemake sit between Ceres and the other two. Probably doesn't have Dysnomia or Pluto's outer moons either in that case.
Still, gives it a fighting chance of running on my 2013 laptop. wonder what the newest version (if it's been further updated) that it can handle is? The newer the code, the more SSOs and actually discovered exoplanets it'll have: )
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Odd choice of dwarf planets. I guess the database for this was put together sometime around 2007 (and certainly, given the 2011 review, before New Horizons got to Pluto, therefore Ceres, Pluto and Eris were the only three? Sizewise, Haumea and Makemake sit between Ceres and the other two. Probably doesn't have Dysnomia or Pluto's outer moons either in that case.
Still, gives it a fighting chance of running on my 2013 laptop. wonder what the newest version (if it's been further updated) that it can handle is? The newer the code, the more SSOs and actually discovered exoplanets it'll have: )
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Jame
Well it is also used for generation (and randomisation) of computer graphics. The iterations usually mean it is one of the 2, although there are some other methods as I understand it.
I am reading into wavelets for graphics and it is looking quite good. Trying to implement something in UDK. Only used FFT before(water and a starfield of sorts.
I only know FDTD from openEMS. Which also makes me wonder if and how he does gravity and magnetic fields in this universe sim.
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Well it is also used for generation (and randomisation) of computer graphics. The iterations usually mean it is one of the 2, although there are some other methods as I understand it.
I am reading into wavelets for graphics and it is looking quite good. Trying to implement something in UDK. Only used FFT before(water and a starfield of sorts.
I only know FDTD from openEMS. Which also makes me wonder if and how he does gravity and magnetic fields in this universe sim.
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ArmouredLemming
I love stuff like this, but at the same time find it just a tad unsettling.
Knowing how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things and all that and knowing that almost all of it will never be within our reach, it all seams pointless in a way and leaves me feeling kinda bummed out.
Thankfully the awesomeness outweighs all that depressing crap, and having a map of the universe at your fingertips is pretty damn cool.
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I love stuff like this, but at the same time find it just a tad unsettling.
Knowing how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things and all that and knowing that almost all of it will never be within our reach, it all seams pointless in a way and leaves me feeling kinda bummed out.
Thankfully the awesomeness outweighs all that depressing crap, and having a map of the universe at your fingertips is pretty damn cool.
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Whiskey
Fourier or wavelets for what? I'm honestly asking. I'm only familiar with the application of these techniques to electromagnetics or at the very least electricity, so unless you mean some kind of far field approximation of the optical fields, I'm curious as to your meaning. Although I could see what you mean, with the resolution improving with each subsequent iteration of the algorithm. So maybe something similar to FDTD?
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Fourier or wavelets for what? I'm honestly asking. I'm only familiar with the application of these techniques to electromagnetics or at the very least electricity, so unless you mean some kind of far field approximation of the optical fields, I'm curious as to your meaning. Although I could see what you mean, with the resolution improving with each subsequent iteration of the algorithm. So maybe something similar to FDTD?
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Jame
Free, but he will not give me any inside into the exact procedural technique he used, or tell me how and which databases he harvests for the known planets in that universe, and whtther or not the engine does it's own version of lazy evaluation, meaning it will only generate where you go as in the stars far away are where they are supposed to be.
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I want to know about the technical side.
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Free, but he will not give me any inside into the exact procedural technique he used, or tell me how and which databases he harvests for the known planets in that universe, and whtther or not the engine does it's own version of lazy evaluation, meaning it will only generate where you go as in the stars far away are where they are supposed to be.
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I want to know about the technical side.
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Entertaining
Rather than making me feel insignificant, knowing that the universe is chock full of all kinds of stuff, gives me comfort. The fact that an individual can even grasp the slightest hint of understanding of the universe makes me feel PART of that reality, that community. Everything is made of the same stuff- everything is connected. It gives me hope-- and makes me smile.
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Rather than making me feel insignificant, knowing that the universe is chock full of all kinds of stuff, gives me comfort. The fact that an individual can even grasp the slightest hint of understanding of the universe makes me feel PART of that reality, that community. Everything is made of the same stuff- everything is connected. It gives me hope-- and makes me smile.
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Ace
BONGO: Ever hear of a thing called the dimension theory of reality?
ACE: Doesn't that run along the lines of there being an infinite number of parallel universes where every possibility exists?
BONGO: It's along those lines, yeah. The basic tenet states that for every decision that's made, the alternative decision is played out in another reality.
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BONGO: Ever hear of a thing called the dimension theory of reality?
ACE: Doesn't that run along the lines of there being an infinite number of parallel universes where every possibility exists?
BONGO: It's along those lines, yeah. The basic tenet states that for every decision that's made, the alternative decision is played out in another reality.
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Andreas
Now make a game, like x3 with intergalactic traveling, trading and space exploration, mixed with Mass Effect ground combat. Randomly generate buildings and terrain, biomes all that good stuff. Design your own ships. No need for a story, just exploration, communication, technology trading.
Yeah, I'd play that.
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Now make a game, like x3 with intergalactic traveling, trading and space exploration, mixed with Mass Effect ground combat. Randomly generate buildings and terrain, biomes all that good stuff. Design your own ships. No need for a story, just exploration, communication, technology trading.
Yeah, I'd play that.
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