[unpaid]Care to create a universe creation site?
I was going through some old notes I'd made about a website idea I had.
I'm copy and pasting them here from a small site I run for my friends locally where a few of us were discussing it.
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I've been reminded, working with children as of late, of how much fun it is to create your own worlds. Some of us draw houses, others maps, and still others new creatures and worlds.
As a way to keep my creative juices flowing and to provide a scaffold for my own creations, I've setup a place to, well, create a universe.
Essentially, the idea is for this to be a place to create your own worlds. These worlds are, of course, always yours to do with as you please, though others may also create within your framework, provided they do not modify the "Canon" of your solar system, star fleet, or household on a planet. They must always give way to the "higher" laws.
As such, right now, I'm just starting to define The Universe. That, is, I'm trying to define the highest creative element on the basis of physical rules under which all creates will fall. So far, a basic co-ordinate system to define the physical and temporal locations of your creations.
This is a fluid entity with no real defined rules, though anything that goes on it is "fair game" for use in the creations of others (open-source in that sense)...though you have the rights to do anything you want with your own creations outside the website as well.
Anyway, just a place to play. I'm thinking that some of you may like to create solar systems, while others may like to populate the worlds created with nature, cities, or desolate wastelands. Perhaps one of you is a stickler for details and wants to simply recreate our Solar system while plugging in information about our planet, and defining periods of history etc, in which to create historical fiction.
Problems I foresee - people may want to create multiple stories on Earth in the same time and place, or change periods of "established" history. How could we describe (and track) multiple dimensions here? etc...be creative...tell anyone you want. It's there for fun and freedom. And if you want to "mod" or "admin", let me know, and I'll set you up...I'm open to ideas.
As well, if you know of a better infrastructure to base this setup on, please let me know. I just put this up this morning so that I had a place to start tracking my thoughts. Ideally, we'd be able to setup basic templates for some creations (i.e., solar system -> class of star, number of orbits, what is in each orbit; or for a planet -> mass, radius, Class, etc)....
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How do I physically and temporally locate something in The Universe?
To facilitate understanding of location at the universal level, physical locations of stars, black holes, etc, are identified using the following co-ordinate system.
This will allow, for example, a given creator to identify a star's location specifically, such that another creator will not mistakenly place a star at that location.
Within individual creations, of course, inhabitants will not likely use this co-ordinate system, as its purpose is to be used at the creative level for organizational reasons.
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The Universe, while in motion, is relatively static in the relative distances between its phsyical entities. That is to say, given star systems will typically remain in the same co-ordinate location for all time; an exception to this may be if your creation involves a roving galactic fleet, or some strange roving black hole, for example.
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The co-ordinate system used is measured in light years and can be contained in a cube 10 000 000 cubic light years. This cube, 1000 light years to a side uses a coordinate system begining at 0 on the x,y, and z axis in the back lefthand, lower corner, such that all locations are positive coordinates.
We also use an indication of time, called "UT" to represent the period in which a creation takes place.
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UT
An era is a period of 1 000 000 000 Earth years, thus allowing our Universe to span a very great deal of time.
1UT is 1 000 000 Earth years.
1.500001UT represents 1 billion and 500 million Earth Years.
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Co-ordinates are reported in the following format:
xxx-yyy-zzz:era
xxx represents the coordinate along the horizontal axis and may be a value between 0 and 999.
yyy represents the coordinate along the vertical axis and may be a value between 0 and 999.
zzz represents the coordinate along the dimensional axis that runs perpendicular to the other two, and may be a value between 0 and 999.
era represents the period in universal history in which the creation exists.
A co-ordinate of 000-000-000:000 would be in the lower back left corner of our imaginary cube. Temporally, we are speaking of the instant the universe was created.
A co-ordinate of 999-000-000:500 would be in the lower back right corner of our imaginary cube. Temporally, we are speaking of the 500 billionth year of The Univserse.
A co-ordinate of 000-999-000:9109339 would be in the upper back left corner of our imaginary cube. Temporall, we are speaking of the 9109339 billionth year of The Univserse.
A co-ordinate of 000-000-999:500 would be in the lower front left corner of our imaginary cube. Temporally, we are speaking of the 500 billionth year of The Univserse.
A co-ordinate of 500-500-500:500 would be in the approximate center of our of our imaginary cube. Temporally, we are speaking of the 500 billionth year of The Universe.
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What sort of breakdown for creation would we need to define?
Universe - think of as 10 000 light years diameter - 1 000 000 000 sectors for creation
Navigation
Time
UT - Universal time unit = 1 billion years?
Dimensional
Physical
Co-ordinate standard (1000 units x,y,z, with each unit = 10 light years?)
Physical Entities
Black Hole
Solar System
Class
Temp
Colour
Size
Life span (in UT)
Oribits (1-x?)
Planet
Size
Composition
Density
Force of Gravity
described orbit?
Moons (1-x)
Size
Composition
Map
Lifeforms
etc...etc...
Anyone feel like helping figure this out?
If someone was into doing some of the tech stuff to make templates, even better!
Think the Star Wars Universe or the Tolkien Universe or... your universe as detailed as you want to make it. Or get help making it.
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