maneatingape

Thanks for the PR! That's an interesting result about the heuristic. On my input it results in a 15% speedup from eliminating branches. | Loop repetitions | Part One |...

I'm curious what could cause such a difference. Let's leave the PR open for now until I can dig into it a little. Visualizing the path taken may provide some...

Following up nine months later... 🙂 Implemented an animation visualizing the frontier in order to debug. With your input and the heuristic set as the Manhattan distance towards the bottom...

Tweak heuristic to fix performance regression on some inputs. Thanks for flagging this!

Interesting idea! What are the scenarios that this would enable?

Thanks for the suggestion! Do you have any examples/situations where a mid-course inclination change is an advantage over a ballistic transfer? Stock is ideal, but modded planet packs are fine...

> To get an efficient rendezvous at some point you have to match inclinations with the target. If left until capture then it is done at capture. But matching inclinations...

> One last thing, something kept nagging me about your statement about making use of the Oberth effect for doing the plane change at start or destination body. It is...

> I'm fairly sure that Oberth only applies if thrust is parallel with the velocity vector because that is the line on which the kinetic energy of the craft exists...

@meep366 Thanks for the thoughtful feedback and happy new year to you too! First the good news - this feature should be theoretically possible. Next the tricky part - there...