a new era of worldbuilding shall dawn
[17:51] iris-discord <kalassak>
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/255420814114029568/288368079732211712/IMG_5188.JPG[17:52] iris-discord <kalassak> help me fill this out
[17:53] iris-discord <kalassak> actually no i'm going to do a thing that i wanted to do with wutcd but was too stupid
[17:53] iris-discord <kalassak> it would work well here
[17:57] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Are those tropical cyclone regions
[17:58] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Basins
[17:58] iris-discord <kalassak> yeah
[17:59] iris-discord <kalassak> i'm preparing for the pavalan cyclone study
[17:59] iris-discord <kalassak> so what i'm going to do is divide it into roughly equal regions
[17:59] iris-discord <kalassak> (so i split the big south one)
[17:59] iris-discord <kalassak> then assign them letters
[17:59] iris-discord <kalassak> from east to west (the direction cyclones travel)
[18:00] iris-discord <kalassak> that way
[18:00] iris-discord <kalassak> when i run the model i can catalogue the cyclones by their formation region
[18:00] iris-discord <kalassak> without needing to ask y'all for names and crap
[18:01] iris-discord <kalassak> and then learn where cyclones form and how active the areas are and how far they extend
[18:01] iris-discord <kalassak> then i can redraw the basin borders
[18:03] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> How are you going to do this
[18:04] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Like
[18:04] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Simulate things
[18:05] iris-discord <kalassak> wrf
[18:06] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Wrf?
[18:06] iris-discord <kalassak> the model i use to generate the stuff in Kalassak runs WRF
[18:06] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Oh
[18:06] iris-discord <kalassak> i figured out how to change the planet properties
[18:07] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> What does it do exactly
[18:07] iris-discord <kalassak> it is a weather model
[18:07] iris-discord <kalassak> it was designed as a mesoscale model but it can be run globally
[18:07] iris-discord <kalassak> mesoscale = regional basically
[18:08] iris-discord <kalassak> it is the basis for a lot of models forecasters use
[18:08] iris-discord <kalassak> like nam and hwrf
[18:08] iris-discord <kalassak> so it is Real Science
[18:09] iris-discord <kalassak> but basically now i can turn earth into pavala
[18:09] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Nice
[18:09] iris-discord <kalassak> then replace earth topography woth pavalan topography
[18:09] iris-discord <kalassak> run it for a few model months (irl days)
[18:09] iris-discord <kalassak> and bam
[18:10] iris-discord <kalassak> we know a bit about weather on pavala
[18:10] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> How are you going to make it like pavala
[18:10] iris-discord <kalassak> i can change the elevation
[18:10] iris-discord <kalassak> and presumably surface type
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> we will need to work on making those datasets together
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> but it should be trivial to convert it to netcdf format or something
[18:11] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Elevation so
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> for the model to use
[18:11] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Elevation data?
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> yes
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> and sone other stuff
[18:11] iris-discord <kalassak> some
[18:11] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Ayy that sounds hard to fulfill
[18:12] iris-discord <kalassak> not really its just worldbuolding
[18:12] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> I mean how precise will it be
[18:12] iris-discord <kalassak> idk how precise the data is
[18:12] iris-discord <kalassak> i think it varies
[18:12] iris-discord <kalassak> from a few km to a few m
[18:12] iris-discord <kalassak> we could get away with a few km
[18:13] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Oh well the model uses a map right
[18:14] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> I was thinking that you had to input like
[18:14] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Coordinates with data or sth
[18:14] iris-discord <kalassak> uh yes
[18:14] iris-discord <kalassak> thats trivial though
[18:15] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Uh yes what
[18:15] iris-discord <kalassak> just write a script that calculated the location of every pixel and takes the value from the image
[18:15] iris-discord <kalassak> and put it in netcdf format
[18:15] iris-discord <kalassak> or whatever the model uses
[18:15] iris-discord <kalassak> the hard part will be
[18:15] iris-discord <kalassak> making the images
[18:16] iris-discord <kalassak> we will need grayscale elevation maps
[18:16] iris-discord <kalassak> for better vertical resolution
[18:17] Stowaway
https://i.gyazo.com/a1f732fa69ac67a2e123729c068c113e.mp4 mfw physics in sketchup
[18:17] iris-discord <kalassak> and maps of soil types and land use
[18:17] iris-discord <kalassak> and stuff
[18:18] iris-discord <kalassak> H A R D C O R E W O R L D B U I L D I N G
[18:18] iris-discord <kalassak> fiah will be excited
[18:18] Stowaway lmao
[18:19] iris-discord <kalassak> i'm not actually sure what we need beyond elevation
[18:20] iris-discord <kalassak> so dont worry about that yet
[18:21] iris-discord <kalassak> but i'm hype for pavalan climate and cyclones
[18:24] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Oooh soil types
[18:27] iris-discord <kalassak> most important tc questions i have on pavala:
[18:28] iris-discord <kalassak> 1 do they have a stronger meridional component because the planet is smaller
[18:28] iris-discord <Bob Dotrugo> Whats that
[18:28] iris-discord <kalassak> 2 do they even form tbh
[18:28] iris-discord <kalassak> 3 size
[18:29] iris-discord <kalassak> 4 do they form east of bongatar
[18:29] iris-discord <kalassak> 5 or west of continent 2 in shem
[18:29] iris-discord <kalassak> 6 or in the land-filled regions near hac and in shem
[18:30] iris-discord <kalassak> tuto meridional is along the meridian
[18:30] iris-discord <kalassak> aka do they go poleward quicker than on earth
[18:30] iris-discord <kalassak> with straighter tracks
[18:34] iris-discord <kalassak> 7 when in the year do they form
[18:35] iris-discord <kalassak> with such a short year we have faster, but also weaker (probably?) seasons
[18:35] iris-discord <kalassak> so does the cyclone season go away?
[18:35] iris-discord <kalassak> or do they form year round
[18:35] iris-discord <kalassak> with a peak in the fall
