Just start work building a planet and star system, the quick and dirty method. Get a random number  from the webpage.

The remainder of the square root of 63503 is 0.998015865204, and the remainder of square root of that times a thousand is 0.591389099005.

How about mimicking a dice drop in my world map canvas? Each point has a magnitude.

Who are the PCs and what are they doing?

When and where is this happening?

How do the PCs deal with the story problem and why?

Hey

Push out pts in 3d. 

Something weird, something wonderful!

Pixel/quad/triangle pair

Figure out the vertices of the quads. Find the quads with any vertices within the world radius and draw those as pixels within my canvas with rectangles one pixel wide and tall. These are placeholders in my canvas. Each quad has four vertices with x and y coordinates within or on the radius and some z coordinate at zero or some distance above or below zero.

Something weird, something wonderful.

Who are the PCs and what are they doing?

When and where does everything happen?

How and why did the PCs get in trouble?

Pixels! Draw all the quads with any vertices within the radius of the world map. Any quad vertex outside the radius needs to be normalized to the radius, with a z coordinate of zero. All vertices within the radius get moved above or below a z coordinate of zero. I need to draw two hemispheres, one above and one below..

space

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

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again

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

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The 13th has passed...

stuff

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

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So, I need to finish the world mapper.

Relaxicon is winding down right now...

Who are the player characters and what are they doing?

When and where is this happening?

How can it be resolved and why this way or that way?

TACO!

As always...

This morning I am still working on the border  points on my terrain tiles.

Find the border points of my terrain tiles

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site. I will get the areas of each row by finding the area of the spherical caps down to the bottom of each row.

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Rows of terrain bits

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site. I will get the areas of each row by finding the area of the spherical caps down to the bottom of each row.

Oops!

Last day of the month...

What do I for April?

Tiles of Terrain

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site.

Oops!

Fill a world rectangle with land and sea...

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site.

Oops!

I messed up...

Need to make that quad based world mapper.

I have half million km^2 triangles... still want to push out quads to triangles. Sigh.

Rows of quads to triangles...

These diamond quads...

Oops!

My next gigasecond?

My next megasecond

Quads in a Sinusoidal World Map

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Now that I can find the column and row, I can pick a point randomly or by clicking inside the sinusoid. I can walk to a random adjacent tile and make it land or sea, blue or green, or use position to generate a seed for a not so random number and average them with adjacent heights and subdivide quads into triangle fans with vertices above or below sea level.