David Robinson

It’s time for some a posting of some of my more recent work. These are all real-time screenshots from a long term project of mine. The galaxy is procedurally generated, and will eventually be fully explorable, down to each individual planet. Also shown is a sparse octree created from the galaxy, which is used to help manage the level-of-detail inherent in data structures of galactic scale.

On the smaller scale, a starmap of around 45,000 of the closest stars to our sun is shown. The lines connect stars that within 2.5 parsecs (~8 light years) of each other, and Sol is highlighted in green.

Special thanks goes to Winchell Chung at Project Rho for his excellent tutorials on star mapping and rocket science.

The site’s back up and I’ve updated the gallery with some of my more recent Zbrush work. Included are low poly creature parts for a currently undisclosed game title, as well as a Dranix (dragon-phoenix) I modeled for contract work. A new article for Gamepsych is currently in progress, and should be posted later this week.