A Clojure library that generates a lazy sequence of planet names from the orginal Elite video game.
Samples:
- Lave
- Isinor
- Zaonce
The algorithm for the planet name generation is © 1984 Ian Bell and David Braben. The Clojure source is a conversion of the Elite C sources.
(require ['devstopfix.elite :as 'elite])
(take 256 (elite/planets-in-elite-galaxy 1))
(nth (elite/planets-in-elite-galaxy 1) 7)
; "Lave"
(take 256 (elite/planets-in-random-galaxy))Some seeds (e.g. [0x00d2 0x669d 0x0d37]) will create a galaxy containing a planet with no letters in the name.
The algorithm is Copyright 1984/1999 of Ian Bell and David Braben. This clojure code is Copyright © 2013 J Every and distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3.0.