{"id":237,"date":"2004-09-03T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:26:17","slug":"building-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/03\/building-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current mood: <\/strong>Amused<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>Currently listening to: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.starkeith.net\">WKEITH Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As most of you probably already know, I have my website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\">StarKeith.net<\/a> that is based on the fictional world I created as a kid &#8211; and that I use for my sci-fi stories. One part of this website is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/asdb\/index.php\">ASDB<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/asdb\/index.php\">Advanced Starship Design Bureau<\/a>. I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/asdb\/index.php?section=search\">database <\/a>of ships loaded, about 400 or so&#8230; but I wasn&#8217;t happy, because according to my designs there should be thousands of ships. The trouble was creating them &#8211; coming up with names, etc. <\/p>\n<p>So, I recently stumbled across a list of about 11,000 names&#8230; technically of &#8220;minor planets&#8221; or asteroids. I imported the list into a program I wrote (in about an hour and a half) and it is currently cranking out ship after ship. It&#8217;s a pretty clever little program &#8211; it uses &#8220;templates&#8221; that I created for each ship class, and it randomly chooses the type of ship for each name. So when it&#8217;s all done, I&#8217;ll have a fully-filled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/asdb\/index.php?section=search\">database <\/a>of 11,400 ships or so. Coolness! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m such a geek. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling about 11,000 names of asteroids and minor planets into a database and then naming fictional ships based on them. Geeky? 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