Elite Dangerous procedural tech 

Did a bit of research on how ED generates systems. I would have thought that the stars and planets and stuff are just plunked down according to statistical distributions, but apparently it actually models stellar accretion and planetary formation on an individual basis. One consequence of this is way more binary planets than the devs expected!

*awesome*.

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