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Starship inhabited for multiple generations
A generation ship, generation starship, or world ship is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark, a multi-generational space habitat and starship. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Generation shipA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: ShipGen: A Diffusion Model for Parametric Ship Hull Generation with Multiple Objectives and ConstraintsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PersuasionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: SHIP Represses the Generation of Alternatively Activated MacrophagesCited 231 times
- Go sideways: StarshipA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Project Hyperion (interstellar)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of interstellar spaceship, where generations of humans live and die aboard during the journey through interstellar space, as the journey between stars would take generations.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
SHIP Represses the Generation of Alternatively Activated Macrophages
A Column Generation Algorithm for a Ship Scheduling Problem
Column generation approaches to ship scheduling with flexible cargo sizes
Waste generation and management onboard a cruise ship: A case study
Multi-Scale Proposal Generation for Ship Detection in SAR Images
SARGAN: A Novel SAR Image Generation Method for SAR Ship Detection Task
New insight into the generation of ship bow waves
Effect of Parameters on Vapor Generation in Ship-to-Ship Liquefied Natural Gas Bunkering
🆕 Influential since 2022
ShipGen: A Diffusion Model for Parametric Ship Hull Generation with Multiple Objectives and Constraints
Ship encounter scenario generation for collision avoidance algorithm testing based on AIS data
SAR Image Ship Object Generation and Classification With Improved Residual Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
SAR image generation method for oriented ship detection via generative adversarial networks
PolSAR Ship Targets Generation via the Polarimetric Feature Guided Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model
📚 Books worth reading
PersuasionJane Austen · 1789
Moby DickHerman Melville · 1851
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon PymEdgar Allan Poe · 1838
Vingt mille lieues sous les mersJules Verne · 1870
The Sea-WolfJack London · 1900
Plague ShipAndre Norton · 1956
SphereMichael Crichton · 1980
The Skylark of SpaceEdward E. Smith · 1946
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