Skip to main content

v0.1.0: the spike

Sunholo
Sunholo
Stapledon's Voyage team

The first review build: an AILANG simulation driving a Godot starfield, with relativity that is tested rather than eyeballed.

What's new​

  • The simulation runs in AILANG as a child process, talking one line of JSON per tick with Godot (about 50 µs per round trip). It flies the ship at 1 g with exact rapidity kinematics.
  • The starfield: 3,802 nearby stars (CNS5), each aberrated toward the bow, coloured as a Doppler-shifted blackbody and beamed brighter ahead.
  • 27 physics reference checks, and 9 cases where the GPU shader must put a star where the CPU reference says, to under 0.1 px.

The sky at 0, 0.5, 0.9 and 0.99c, looking forward, starboard and astern

Not yet​

No Milky Way behind the stars, one axis of motion, and star colours from the spectral class only. All three were fixed in M1.

Release: v0.1.0-m0 (macOS review build)