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Thanks guys, now I'm doing conmaths instead of anything useful. Well, at least my conpeople will be able to trisect angles. They just won't be able to talk or write about it.

I keep trying, and failing.

If I joined, would I have to start as an apprentice conlanger and work up, or will the right contacts buy me a shortcut to master conlanger?

Nortaneous wrote:but I've never seen anyone with white skin and a black face.

I present: Colin Powell.

Or at least, I'm informed that Americans consider him black. As far as I'm concerned, black is one extreme of a skin colour spectrum and, uh, that's it.

Anything from the Song of Songs, please.

I'm taking a seasonal break, so that a) I don't get burnt out and b) I can work on stuff for my own conworld. Be back in the New Year!

Crap. I've messed up somewhere and now some parts of the program thinks it's summer while some parts thinks it's winter (simple solar declination problem). So in that pic, one pole is getting 0 day length and the other 0 energy input :oops: Now to double check all my functions again! Edit: Fixed now.

Well, things have passed an important threshold: I am now getting honest to goodness temperatures out. http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/Image1.png This shows the theoretical rise in temperature that would caused by the incoming energy for one day around the (NH) winter. You can see h...

bulbaquil wrote:...refraction...

LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA

out of interest, will we be able to use this for planets that are tidally locked, or that have ridiculously long days? Probably not in version 1.0, unless there's a demand. It's something I want to be possible, but at the moment I'm taking a fixed orbital position for each "day", which is a) simple...

I remember reading... somewhere(which I can't find in my current state)... that, on planets with an axial inclination in excess of 45º, the annual mean insolation is greatest at the poles. I have yet to figure out the calculations for annual mean of insolation, so I don't know. That's not what I'm ...

I think I've got things fixed now. Still a little suspicious of my day lengths, but at least I'm not getting odd blips and ridges.

the latitude equal to the axial incline of the planet Yes - these latitudes are the tropics. ...arse. That'll teach me to debug programs at three in the morning. It's not the tropics, because I gave the wrong angle :oops: I meant 90 - axial incline of the planet, the polar circles. I suspect I have...

Heat (or rather energy) oddity: around the solstices, an odd phenomenon happens at the pole pointing towards the sun - according to my pretty pictures, the latitude equal to the axial incline of the planet experiences an optimum balance of day length and sun angle and actually gets more energy per d...

It's not because it's C. It actually looks like it should handle eccentricity up to 0.8 ...pretty... well. Its just that over about e=0.3 it takes a lot of iterations to find the root unless you make a really good initial guess. Doing it by hand usually bogs down scary bad at 0.1, so don't complain...

If anyone plans on working with highly elliptical orbits (eccentricity over 0.3), they're going to have to find me some C++ code to solve Kepler's equation for those cases. I'm currently running the (C?) code from here , which runs the < .3 case fine but sulks at everything else. This may well be be...

Any chance of your exposing the source code? If I can bear the embarrassment :oops: As long as you can apply it to the Earth so that I'll know what the weather will be like when I'm on holiday, your code will be beyond any reasonable criticism :-) Only if your holiday is in Manchester. When there's...

su_liam wrote:Any chance of your exposing the source code?

If I can bear the embarrassment

Writing some software to handle various climate-related calculations has gone from "pipe-dream" to "looking possible". I've started on a library of temperature-related functions, and once they're done I should have a program capable of taking a greyscale heightmap image (plus some variables) and out...

I was wondering what happened to this thread. I got a life. The two major problems I have with continuing for the moment are ocean currents and rainfall. Ocean currents always look like they should be easy, but once you take away the year-round oceanic high pressure areas that Earth has it gets com...

I fully intend to get back to this :wink: And a quick reminder: DO NOT TRUST WHAT I SAY. I KNOW NOTHING THAT CANNOT BE GLEANED FROM A COMBINATION OF THE INTERNET AND TOO MUCH TIME. NOTHING! 1) What would be the overall effect of massive patches of ocean and relatively few, compact patches of contine...

So, for this model you're ignoring the fact that low pressure areas should make the wind spiral the other way I'm not. The wind is only deflected in one direction per hemisphere and the clockwise/anticlockwise spirals are a consequence of that, not an inherent property of high and low pressure. It ...

I am still working on this

I'm struggling to put together anything worthwhile on ocean currents, especially for planets with very unstable pressure zones.

Hope this is still being useful to people.

If anyone knows anything about storm, hurricane and tornado formation, that would be a really useful addition.

Prevailing Winds Winds flow from high pressure areas to low pressure ones, with some deflection from the coriolis effect. The coriolis effect will cause winds to spiral out of high pressure zones (clockwise in the northern hemisphere, anticlockwise in the southern) and into low pressure zones (anti...