Cartographer is a retro-style star navigation tech demo that simulates a 3D starfield in a command-line interface. This project demonstrates basic 3D rendering techniques and provides an interactive experience for exploring a virtual star system.
- 3D Starfield Rendering: Simulates a three-dimensional star field using ASCII characters.
- Player-Controlled Navigation: Move through the star field using arrow keys and rotation controls.
- Star Information: Displays details about the nearest star, including its name, type, temperature, size, and age.
- Dynamic Star Generation: Creates a field of stars with randomly generated properties.
- Simple 3D Projection: Implements basic 3D to 2D projection for displaying stars and the player's ship.
- Arrow Keys: Move the player's ship up, down, left, and right
- W/S: Rotate around the X-axis
- A/D: Rotate around the Y-axis
- Q/E: Rotate around the Z-axis
- Python 3.x
- NumPy library
- Ensure you have Python 3.x installed on your system.
- Install the required NumPy library:
pip install numpy - Download the
cartographer.pyfile.
Run the script from the command line:
python cartographer.py
Make sure that you adjust the window size to fit the starfield properly in the terminal.
This project is released under the Unlicense. For more information, please refer to http://unlicense.org/.
This project was created as an exploration of 3D rendering techniques and ASCII-based visualization. It serves as a tech demo and a starting point for further experimentation with command-line based 3D graphics and space simulation.