Jambe's Wormhole Visuals

here's my wormhole basics primer if you want a quick overview of hole mechanics
wormholes' centers show the skyboxes (visual surroundings) of the system on the other side
- so if you know skyboxes, you know to which
  J-Space (JS)systems whose names all start with the letter J, accessible only via wormholes - 2,603 total
  class or
  K-Space (KS)Known Space systems, aka High-Sec (HS), Low-Sec (LS), and Null-Sec (NS) - 5,458 in total
  region any hole leads
  - there are 13 JS classes (seven of which share one skybox) and 65 KS regions accessible as of March 2024
    - the KS regions have visual similarities based on their relative locations which I describe further below
these are screenshots and ten-second 1080p video clips of wormhole visuals taken with Shader Quality at Low and Texture Quality at Medium
- the quality is garbo but they're fit for purpose! yoink whole folders for yourself or just view in your browser
- wormhole visuals are 2D and thus visually consistent if Shader Quality is on Low, so visually IDing wormhole destinations on Low is straightforward
  - by contrast, on Medium or High, wormhole visuals are 3D; the skyboxes are warped and star reflections & mass filaments obscure things, making IDing slower (in my experience)
  - Low Quality makes the mass-indicating filaments less obvious, but mass is indicated in the Show Info anyway (see primer)
    - here's a guide by Tiger Ears for Medium/High Quality, and here's a more involved one by Ashy which also covers filaments (I've never used these myself)
- the Orbit Camera was zoomed all the way in and its alt-zoom was unmodified
  - if you've alt-zoomed in or out accidentally, reset it to normal by alt-zooming all the way out, then back in 3 scroll wheel ticks
- set your probing client to some 16:9 resolution and overlay a screenshot or clip if you want to positively ID a region or just learn (Control + F9 toggles UI)

JS visuals are all rather distinct, and Thera and C6 have dead text giveaways in Show Info (Thera is explicit, C6 is "deadly unknown").
Thera, the five Drifter systems, and the 25 Tripnulls constitute the 7 classes which share a skybox.
Drifters' KS holes are obvious because of the deadspacing, but their statics (all to JS) aren't deadspaced.

The predominant color of HS/LS wormholes indicates which Empire they lead to: blue = Caldari, green = Gallente, red = Minmatar, yellow = Amarr:

Aridia
Black Rise
Derelik
Devoid
Domain
Essence
Everyshore
Genesis
Heimatar
Kador
Khanid (actually more brown than yellow, but whatever)
Kor-Azor (again, more brown than yellow, and lotsa green in)
Lonetrek
Metropolis
Molden Heath
Placid
Sinq Laison
Solitude
Tash-Murkon
The Bleak Lands
The Citadel
The Forge
Verge Vendor

NS visuals are more various but still have some visual cohesion based on their position in the galaxy.
Pochven holes are indicated as Triglavian Space in Show Info but also have unique giant ice/rock strucures on their grids and their signatures are 75 km away from their holes.
Pochven wormhole grids are not deadspaced like Drifter wormhole grids.
Here's an image of DOTLAN's universe map with visually-similar regions enclosed with the defining nebula color of their area.
Commentary starts in the galactic northwest, next to Gallente space, and proceeds clockwise, with the colloquial cardinal directions of a region to the left:

NW: Cloud Ring, Outer Ring, and Syndicate are a telltale green. Outer Ring shows the full Ring, Cloud Ring shows it cut off to the top & right, and Syndicate doesn't show it.
N: Tribute and Pure Blind are Caldari blue; Tribute has a giveaway red splotch at its bottom-left.
N: Fade is gray/brown like Stain and nearby, but has the Branch/Deklein arm nebula sticking out to the top-right. Branch and Deklein are extremely alike, Branch is just tilted clockwise a bit.
N: Venal has the Branch/Deklein nebula at its core but more tilted and faded. Tenal has the nebula at its left and the yelloiwsh Jove neulba to its right.
N: Vale of the Silent has the same dark blue-gray as Venal but without the arm nebula. Brighter in the center, with a tiny giveaway red patch below-center.
N: Geminate has spindly gray arm at left and a bright red/orange/yellow nebula at right (the rightward nebula makes it look more like eastern Angel regions than Northern ones).
NE: All the Dronelands systems feature a telltale electric blue-white nebula; most also have either the yellowish Jove nebula, the spindly arm nebula, or the red/orange/yellow nebula.
E: Cache has a small bright reddish-yellow patch on the left and a brownish dusty patch shooting out to the right.
E: Great Wildlands has an extremely-distinctive & compact red hourglass nebula at center. Scalding Pass is a yellow-red mass with a telltale bright white section at the top-right.
E: Insmother has the yellow-red nebula to the left and the hourglass nebula at the top-right. Wicked Creek has the yellow-red nebula on the right with dusty blue & gray to the left.
E: Curse has the yellow-red nebula above and a spindly nebula jutting out to the bottom-right.
SE: Detorid, Immensea, Tenerifis, Omist, Feythabolis and Impass all feature a characteristic electric blue-green nebula in various positions.
S: Catch has a distinct yellow-orange nebula to the right and a nondistinct yellow-orange smear to the left.
S: Providence is the most easily-identifiable NS region; it's the only NS nebula with that giveaway Amarr golden-yellow.
S: Stain is the darkest of the nebulae; some faint brownish dust. Esoteria has that same faint dust, but with a distinct bright arm jutting from its center to its bottom-left.
S: Paragon Soul is Stain's dust, but brighter and grayer to the bottom, darker & browner above. Period Basis is Paragon Soul but zoomed-in & brighter.
SW: Querious is dusty and brown as well, but with a wide blue-gray expanse beneath and a telltale brightish-white patch jutting straight up from its center.
SW: Delve has the dustiness of Stain & company to the right and a giveaway white/yellow/orange streak shooting from center to bottom-left.
W: Fountain is distinctive; an orange nebula from center to lower-left and a gray/brown one from center to right.

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