Geeky Problem That Needs a Solution.

[slacker22]

So, for various reasons I'm not going to get into right now, I need a 3-D starmap. I have (or can get) the astronomical data that lists the spectral type of stars and their XYZ coordinates. What I need to do is quasi-randomly select about 150 stars from that list within about a hundred light years of Earth, skewed heavily towards F, G, and K types, but not exclusively. Once I've done that, I can import them into a crazy old mapping program I found on the interwubs.

But the random (or quasi-random) selection bit is what's giving me the problem.