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edit: I'm moving the page, for reasons explained elsewhere. Spread the word.
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The exsisting resources thread (here: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=15191) seems to be entierly linguitic resources, so I thought it might be useful to collect non-linguistic resources we've found in another thread. (If this belongs there, feel free to move it.) And final note: I don't vouch for the accuracy of any of these.
Physical World/Universe/Sciency Things:
Planet Designer: Calculator for stars and planets. Hard science
http://www.johnbray.org.uk/planetdesigner/
Astro: Calculator for Stellar & Planetary Orbits, Planets and Satellite Orbits, Rotational Habitats, and Asteroid Crater Sizes. Originally aimed at the Hard SF RPG 2300 AD, but the science is good.
http://www.bumply.com/astro.html
StarGen: Random generator for star systems and planets. Also has a downloadable version.
http://fast-times.eldacur.com/StarGen/RunStarGen.html
World Generation: Another randomized generator, aimed at the Traveller RPG, but still useful.
http://www.trisen.com/sol/static/wg/wg.html
Plan a Planet Orbiting a Main Sequence Star
http://web.archive.org/web/200302181253 ... eqstar.htm
Hard SF Tools
http://web.archive.org/web/200708230842 ... ard-sf.htm
Antimatter Calculator: Just for fun, calculates the energy from matter/antimatter explosions.
http://www.edwardmuller.com/right17.htm
Church of Climatology: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=34650
Creating an Earthlike Planet: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/geoff/worldkit.html
Geoff's Climate Cookbook: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/geoff/climate.html
Fundamentals of Physical Geography: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundam ... tents.html
The Geography Site: http://www.geography-site.co.uk/index.html
World Builder's: CSU's Worldbuilding Course
http://www.world-builders.org/
An Atlas of the Universe: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
Star Data Pages: http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/
Planetary Fact Sheets:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
Stephen Dole's Habitable Planets for Man:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_boo ... B179-1.pdf
Ecology
Introduction to the Biosphere, from Fundamentals of Physical Geography: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundam ... pter9.html
Drake Equation: Calculator for the Drake Equation.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/To ... ation.html
Holly Lisle's Rollicking Rules of Ecosystems: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules ... stems.html
Holly Lisle's Holly Lisle's Shopping List for Better BEMs: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/bem-s ... -list.html
Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/astrobiological_news.php
Major Biomes of the World: http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/ ... /main.html
Maps
Fractal World Generator: makes fractal maps.
http://donjon.bin.sh/world/
Holly Lisle's Maps Workshop -- Developing the Fictional World through Mapping: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/maps-workshop.html
Fantasy
Holly Lisle's Fantasy Is Not for Sissies: Real Rules for Real Worlds: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules ... ntasy.html
30 Days of World Building: http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/days/index.html
Magical World Builder's Guide: Guide to building fantasy worlds.
http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/
10 Steps to Creating Realistic Fantasy Animals
http://www.elfwood.com/farp/thewriting/ ... alash.html
Patricia C. Wrede's Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: also useful for non-fantasy cultures.
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-wor ... questions/
Cultural/Ethnology Resources
The Zaharam-Chapelle-Parunas Ethnographical Questionnaire (Thank you Tom Chapelle!)
http://bethisad.com/conculture/questionnaire.htm
The Importance of Food: Aimed at RPGs, but touches on an aspect of conworlding that I haven't really seen talked about much here.
http://ptgptb.org/0024/food.html
Worlds
The Speculative Dinosaur Project: no K-Pg extinction event.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/index.html
Orion's arm Universe Project: Huge galaxy spanning hard SF world building project.
http://www.orionsarm.com/
Furaha: http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/
Epona: http://www.eponaproject.com/Epona_Home.html
Planetocopia: Variations on Earth.
http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM
Snaiad: http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html
Collected Links:
Hobgoblin.net's World Building resources for writers: http://www.hobgoblin.net/modules/mylink ... .php?cid=7
Future Studies: Transhumanist resources.
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Future/
Hard SF: Collection of links and essays about Hard SF.
http://www.hardsf.org/NofrInde.htm
Orion's Arm Links: Orion's Arm is a huge hard SF world building project. These are their world building resources links. There's some overlap with this list.
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-links
World Building Links: http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... ding_links
World Builder Projects: http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/
Specfic World's resouces: http://www.specficworld.com/resources/world.aspx
Fantasy World Building Resources: http://www.squidoo.com/fantasyworldbuilding
Assorted Other Useful Resources:
(These are things that I've found interesting/useful.)
Space future: Promoting the human use of space - lost of SF/space information.
http://www.spacefuture.com/directory.shtml
Technovelgy: Collection of SF inventions.
http://www.technovelgy.com/
Maritime knowledge: Useful collection of information if you want details on sailing topics.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/
1814 Nautical Glossary: What it says - a glossary of nautical terms in use in 1814. http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/ ... ssary.html
1814 Questions for Young Officers: A "test" for young officers on sailing ships - useful if you want details on how sailing ships operate.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/ ... tions.html
Lots of online calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/converters.html
Science calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/scienceconverters.html
Mapping Tool:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gproject ... d_win.html
Gravitational Simulator:
http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/a ... /what.html
Edit: Added a few more.
Edit: Adding various things at the bottom now.
Agriculture:
Calories per acre of farm land: http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calori ... ous_foods/
Food and Nutrition: http://www.poppyware.com/dunham/facts/food.html
New link: https://daistallia.neocities.org/links.html
The exsisting resources thread (here: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=15191) seems to be entierly linguitic resources, so I thought it might be useful to collect non-linguistic resources we've found in another thread. (If this belongs there, feel free to move it.) And final note: I don't vouch for the accuracy of any of these.
Physical World/Universe/Sciency Things:
Planet Designer: Calculator for stars and planets. Hard science
http://www.johnbray.org.uk/planetdesigner/
Astro: Calculator for Stellar & Planetary Orbits, Planets and Satellite Orbits, Rotational Habitats, and Asteroid Crater Sizes. Originally aimed at the Hard SF RPG 2300 AD, but the science is good.
http://www.bumply.com/astro.html
StarGen: Random generator for star systems and planets. Also has a downloadable version.
http://fast-times.eldacur.com/StarGen/RunStarGen.html
World Generation: Another randomized generator, aimed at the Traveller RPG, but still useful.
http://www.trisen.com/sol/static/wg/wg.html
Plan a Planet Orbiting a Main Sequence Star
http://web.archive.org/web/200302181253 ... eqstar.htm
Hard SF Tools
http://web.archive.org/web/200708230842 ... ard-sf.htm
Antimatter Calculator: Just for fun, calculates the energy from matter/antimatter explosions.
http://www.edwardmuller.com/right17.htm
Church of Climatology: http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=34650
Creating an Earthlike Planet: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/geoff/worldkit.html
Geoff's Climate Cookbook: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/geoff/climate.html
Fundamentals of Physical Geography: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundam ... tents.html
The Geography Site: http://www.geography-site.co.uk/index.html
World Builder's: CSU's Worldbuilding Course
http://www.world-builders.org/
An Atlas of the Universe: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
Star Data Pages: http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/
Planetary Fact Sheets:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
Stephen Dole's Habitable Planets for Man:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_boo ... B179-1.pdf
Ecology
Introduction to the Biosphere, from Fundamentals of Physical Geography: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundam ... pter9.html
Drake Equation: Calculator for the Drake Equation.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/To ... ation.html
Holly Lisle's Rollicking Rules of Ecosystems: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules ... stems.html
Holly Lisle's Holly Lisle's Shopping List for Better BEMs: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/bem-s ... -list.html
Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/astrobiological_news.php
Major Biomes of the World: http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/ ... /main.html
Maps
Fractal World Generator: makes fractal maps.
http://donjon.bin.sh/world/
Holly Lisle's Maps Workshop -- Developing the Fictional World through Mapping: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/maps-workshop.html
Fantasy
Holly Lisle's Fantasy Is Not for Sissies: Real Rules for Real Worlds: http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules ... ntasy.html
30 Days of World Building: http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/days/index.html
Magical World Builder's Guide: Guide to building fantasy worlds.
http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/
10 Steps to Creating Realistic Fantasy Animals
http://www.elfwood.com/farp/thewriting/ ... alash.html
Patricia C. Wrede's Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: also useful for non-fantasy cultures.
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-wor ... questions/
Cultural/Ethnology Resources
The Zaharam-Chapelle-Parunas Ethnographical Questionnaire (Thank you Tom Chapelle!)
http://bethisad.com/conculture/questionnaire.htm
The Importance of Food: Aimed at RPGs, but touches on an aspect of conworlding that I haven't really seen talked about much here.
http://ptgptb.org/0024/food.html
Worlds
The Speculative Dinosaur Project: no K-Pg extinction event.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/index.html
Orion's arm Universe Project: Huge galaxy spanning hard SF world building project.
http://www.orionsarm.com/
Furaha: http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/
Epona: http://www.eponaproject.com/Epona_Home.html
Planetocopia: Variations on Earth.
http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM
Snaiad: http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html
Collected Links:
Hobgoblin.net's World Building resources for writers: http://www.hobgoblin.net/modules/mylink ... .php?cid=7
Future Studies: Transhumanist resources.
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Future/
Hard SF: Collection of links and essays about Hard SF.
http://www.hardsf.org/NofrInde.htm
Orion's Arm Links: Orion's Arm is a huge hard SF world building project. These are their world building resources links. There's some overlap with this list.
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-links
World Building Links: http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... ding_links
World Builder Projects: http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/
Specfic World's resouces: http://www.specficworld.com/resources/world.aspx
Fantasy World Building Resources: http://www.squidoo.com/fantasyworldbuilding
Assorted Other Useful Resources:
(These are things that I've found interesting/useful.)
Space future: Promoting the human use of space - lost of SF/space information.
http://www.spacefuture.com/directory.shtml
Technovelgy: Collection of SF inventions.
http://www.technovelgy.com/
Maritime knowledge: Useful collection of information if you want details on sailing topics.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/
1814 Nautical Glossary: What it says - a glossary of nautical terms in use in 1814. http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/ ... ssary.html
1814 Questions for Young Officers: A "test" for young officers on sailing ships - useful if you want details on how sailing ships operate.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/ ... tions.html
Lots of online calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/converters.html
Science calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/scienceconverters.html
Mapping Tool:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gproject ... d_win.html
Gravitational Simulator:
http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/a ... /what.html
Edit: Added a few more.
Edit: Adding various things at the bottom now.
Agriculture:
Calories per acre of farm land: http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calori ... ous_foods/
Food and Nutrition: http://www.poppyware.com/dunham/facts/food.html
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Thanks guys. That's 10+ years worth of collecting.
Please feel free to add anything else you may have that could be useful...
Please feel free to add anything else you may have that could be useful...
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Oh excellent. Thank you!TomHChappell wrote:See this too.
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Yep.
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I seem to be runing into problems trying to register there.Daistallia wrote:Oh excellent. Thank you!TomHChappell wrote:See this too.
Getting a "Sorry, but this username has been disallowed." Never had that problem anywhere before...
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You had it on the ZBB as well. See this.
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
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This makes me want to completely revamp my conworld as a project over the summer holidays (besides writing a 10-page paper and reading a ton of books for next semester, as well as trying to advance my grammar). Thanks!
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Alrighty.finlay wrote:you will need to find the alternative link to bricka's (geoff's) climate/planet building page as my university web hosting will finish at some point in the next 1 or 2 months.
Might put that up on one of my angelifire pages, if you would like...
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I'm also available; my own university hosting service will last another three years.Daistallia wrote:Alrighty.finlay wrote:you will need to find the alternative link to bricka's (geoff's) climate/planet building page as my university web hosting will finish at some point in the next 1 or 2 months.
Might put that up on one of my angelifire pages, if you would like...
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Too bad r0ry.co.uk doesn't exist anymore (since he's gone to Ohio I think?), i.e. Rory's page with its Mirror.
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Hmmm... followed the instructions there, and the e-mail has bounced three times now.Kicgan Vekei wrote:You had it on the ZBB as well. See this.
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If your conplanet is Earth, take a look at http://www.timeanddate.com/
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