A few years back I made a video game called the Lacuna Expanse....
A few years back I made a video game called the Lacuna Expanse. Last year I open sourced the code for it. A few people in the community have really dove in and kept it going. They’re doing an amazing job. This is a map one of them made of the entire expanse. Each dot on there is a star system, so you can see just how massive it is. The various colors represent the alliances that control various star systems.
[From my blog.]
My little part in the greater Perl world.
Now that's pretty. :)
Why are there plenty of organic-seeming shapes that are cut off by grid borders?
The grid lines on the map are "zone" lines in the game. So some alliances decide they only want to control the star systems in their zones. Zones affect things like trading, star system composition, and intelligence gathering.