{"id":1809,"date":"2023-02-06T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:00:35","slug":"welsh-piper-hex-map-algorithm-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/welsh-piper-hex-map-algorithm-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Piper hex map algorithm – Python"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In relation to HexDescribe and TextMapper<\/a> – the random or Smale algorithm is the Welsh Piper’s. https:\/\/welshpiper.com\/hex-based-campaign-design-part-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a follow on part linked for stocking hexes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I translated this to python – partly as a ChatGPT exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/github.com\/bluetyson\/Dungeon23-Mokuy\/blob\/main\/smale.py<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where I did a few tweaks of the Primary and Secondary maps for the gnomeyland style based on the terrains I have put in Mokuy for HexDescribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the TextMapper map https:\/\/github.com\/bluetyson\/Dungeon23-Mokuy\/blob\/main\/mokuy1.txt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the HexDescribe tables so far – lengthy project the latter https:\/\/github.com\/bluetyson\/Dungeon23-Mokuy\/blob\/main\/mokuytables.txt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need a ship and ship crew generator, speaking of such things (and\/or ChatGPT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In relation to HexDescribe and TextMapper – the random or Smale algorithm is the Welsh Piper’s. https:\/\/welshpiper.com\/hex-based-campaign-design-part-1\/ There’s a follow on part linked for stocking hexes. I translated this to python – partly as a ChatGPT exercise. https:\/\/github.com\/bluetyson\/Dungeon23-Mokuy\/blob\/main\/smale.py Where I did a few tweaks of the Primary and Secondary maps for the gnomeyland style based … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Welsh Piper hex map algorithm – Python”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[217,101,3,14,2],"tags":[513,134,512,510,293,28,26,492,511],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-tb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1833,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/desert-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809,"position":0},"title":"Desert Maps","author":"richard","date":"February 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex has made some adjustments to his Alpine algorithm for TextMapper to get better desert terrain - e.g. Australian. 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These are great and the code is also here:- https:\/\/github.com\/kensanata?tab=repositories Australia DTM Histogram\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Data Science"","block_context":{"text":"Data Science","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/category\/data-science\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1716,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/textmapper-with-gridmapper\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809,"position":2},"title":"Textmapper with Gridmapper","author":"richard","date":"January 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Making SVG maps from icons based on coordinates Example data file: https:\/\/campaignwiki.org\/contrib\/gridmapper-example.txt https:\/\/campaignwiki.org\/text-mapper GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/kensanata\/hex-mapping There's a git repository for the perl library version at the campaignwiki link,too. 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