Generates a Y-axis 2D representation of a 3D galaxy.
Please note that this program requires Python and either PIL or pillow, both of which I'm pretty sure work with this. You should probably name your galaxies.
A small .py that allows you to input values to create a galaxy. This script generates a 3D galaxy from a number of parameters and stores it in an array. You can modify this script to store the data in a database or whatever your purpose is. THIS script uses the data only to generate a PNG with a 2D view from top of the galaxy. The algorithm used to generate the galaxy is borrowed from Ben Motz motzb@hotmail.com. The original C source code for DOS (including a 3D viewer) can be downloaded here: http://bits.bristol.ac.uk/motz/tep/galaxy.html
Unfortunately, the original python code source has been lost to time and a lack of wanting-to- search-through-several-hundred-webpages-for-one-webarchive-page. Sorry, original python guy. A fair portion of the revisions and code is from /u/Foxtrot on reddit. They are much better with the python-fu than I!