Slice of 10,000-star tour

star10k tour


The itinerary for the 10,000-star trip is given in the following files.

  • star10k_tour.txt, a list of integers from 1 up to 10,000, giving the order the stars appear in the tour,
  • star10k_order.txt, the points for star10k permuted in the tour order,
  • star10k.tour, the tour in TSPLIB format.

The tour's total length is 27675.0 parsecs, measured as described on the data page.

Interactive View

Rotating -- See the tour rotating in 3-space. Stars are represented by twinkling points, using color to represent each star's position in the tour. The tour is traced by colored lines.