@approxinfinity said in Has Bill Self seen aliens?:
I wonder if anyone has plotted what the stars would look like from a foreign world and made up that worlds constellations, including our sun.
All you need is a 3D star map that can be manipulated to put youurself anywhere in the map. Once the star location data is created, shifing perpective and reducing it to 2D should ne easy. I don’t know if anyone has invented constellations from those views, though! Cool idea…create a different world’s mythology!
This generator (for creating game backgrounds, I guess) looks like it might be able to do it:
https://www.profantasy.com/products/cos3_summary.asp
I’m sure cosmologists have numerous tools to do it. It would be vital for interstellar navigation. I remember Star Trek (Voyager?) episodes where they had to figure out where they were after going through wormholes, and they used a (CGI) hologram to simulate the galaxy.