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kachapopopow

Why do I remember minecraft using yggdrasil at some point. Maybe just a name clash of a java library.

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Yggdrasil is from Norse mythology. So I’m not surprised that a bunch of different people name software after it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Just like many might pick cool and important names from Greek mythology for example, like Poseidon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon

Indeed; Yggdrasil is also the name of a set of models of the emission from stellar populations:

https://www.astro.uu.se/~ez/yggdrasil/ReadMe.txt

https://www.astro.uu.se/~ez/yggdrasil/yggdrasil.html

Brings to mind the system that rules over the Digital World :)

https://wikimon.net/yggdrasill

wow thanks for the link, the UFO style ring interface floating over a honeycomb is extremely similar to a GUI I designed once, didn't realize Digimon had prior art on it.

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yggdrasil

FYI, the Minecraft Fandom wiki is no longer maintained. The new wiki is https://minecraft.wiki/w/Yggdrasil

Thanks! I would edit my parent comment if I could.

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