This signboard of the Demon Prince is indeed better than expected. Starting from the second day, Mr. Kawei took over, and the stubborn old housekeeper Aihanu no longer came to the door to urge someone to work.
On the contrary, the two experts, who seemed to be interested in playing, drove the little broken car to the center to play from time to time. They were the most competent test drivers. The main task is to cooperate with the people of the special manufacturing team to modify the No. 2 and No. 3 cars to be more approachable.
Except for Azad and William Greco, no one can control those two mechanical monsters. Some people try to drive in high gears and low speeds throughout the whole process, but doing so is very easy to stall or crash, so it won't work unless you change it.
Regardless of how the group of people in the automobile manufacturing and R&D center were in a state of panic all day long, Lin himself did not do less work at all. The two girls are responsible for restoring the operation of the silkworm coop. Since most of the house was destroyed this time, they simply demolished it and rebuilt it. Having experience in large-scale and classified breeding, of course they had some ideas, and they planned and designed according to this new idea.
The house in the jacquard workshop is the fastest to build, because it only requires a roof shell, and there are no partitions or various furniture inside, just a few chairs at most. The remaining machines have to be repaired by someone themselves, and the only assistant is the new apprentice, Leonardo.
Although this Florentine boy doesn't like to use magic, he likes tinkering with machines and is especially dexterous. Moreover, he not only helped a lot with disassembly and assembly, but also had great ideas on improving the machine. He can be said to be the most suitable assistant for someone. As for the two girls who have been following him for a long time, although they are familiar with someone's working habits, their attitude towards the machine is not as positive and dedicated as Leonardo.
However, Lin did not just repair the jacquard machine, but mixed in another research. Thanks to the suggestion of the Demon Prince Azad (sarcasm?), Lin tried to create a tool based on the magic 'shaping technique', which required transforming this one-ring apprentice-level magic into a magic circle.
The original use of shaping technique is to turn magic materials with various material properties into clay, and use your hands, power, and imagination to transform this magic material into what you want. However, this approach still has errors in industrial specifications. At this time, you must rely on a hammer and file to make final adjustments.
There are two ways to combine different magic materials using shaping. One is the one most people use, which is to combine two pieces of different materials in a 'sticky' way.
The disadvantage is that it is very inconvenient to perfectly separate the two materials, and many people even cannot do it. This is also the reason why most of the magic materials are manufactured into finished products and cannot be recycled. And there are many materials with very different material properties that cannot be stuck together in this way. For example, for the combination of metals and non-metals, this method is mostly not feasible.
The other is to use a special structure to embed two different magic materials together. This technique can be said to be the most important private inheritance for those magicians who have mastered it, and it is rarely made public. Even in the knowledge recorded by the Magicians Association, there is very little content about this technology, only some descriptions of the advantages and disadvantages of this method.
The advantage is that the artifacts using this technology, in addition to being easy to recycle magic materials, can be separated and combined at any time. This is a rare benefit for handling large items. And there is no need to consider whether the material properties are similar, as long as it is a combination of solid and solid, this method can be achieved.
But the disadvantage is that a magician with poor skills will leave too big a gap in the joint, causing the items to become loose or even damaged. In addition, the joint surface is also prone to gaps due to insufficient smoothness. For designs that require airtightness, it is difficult to achieve complete airtightness with this technology.
In other words, this technology cannot be used only if you understand it; it must be 'sophisticated' before it can be used in actual manufacturing of items, otherwise it is better not to use it. If the two properties are similar, in practical use, embedding is even worse than sticking.
Although this technique seems mysterious, it happens to be the unique skill of the Silver-bearded Dwarf. At first, they even kept it secret. If it weren't for the poor fitting skills, many failed products were made when making engines with very high airtightness requirements. I came to someone for advice, and this skill was exposed.
If you haven't even seen the real thing and only have the description in the book, then forget it. But after seeing the actual thing in front of Lin for a few times, he roughly guessed that it was a mortise-and-tenon structure that belonged to the Mystery Edition and was a magic material. And it’s the kind that doesn’t require wedge nails for extra fixation.
The trouble with this method is how to control two or more magic materials at the same time, so that one grows inward and the other grows outward on the flat surface that is invisible to the naked eye. In the end, the concave and convex parts of the two fit tightly into each other, and the shape cannot be a cone shape that is easy to loosen, but must be an inverted cone shape or other strange and weird shapes to trap the two or more objects to be connected.
The threshold of this technology lies in how to use shaping techniques to control the invisible and intangible parts of magic materials to change them into the appearance you want. This method is said to be broken, but it is not difficult at all. Even when any magician teaches his apprentices, he uses the same words and makes the same requirements.
To put it in a more magical version, if you don't pinch it with your hands, you can use your imagination during the casting process to imagine what you want the spelled object to look like. As long as the imagination is richer and the imagination is more specific, the effect of plastic surgery will be better. To achieve internal fitting, it is just a matter of being able to imagine the specific shape of the fitting.
With today's eyes, Lin Zhong analyzed the magic of plastic surgery. The spell model of Shaping is the most basic power unit that triggers this magical effect. Think of this basic unit as a building block. Pile the blocks into whatever shape you want it to be. Then the object being cast will gradually change into the shape of the 'building blocks' without changing its mass.
How to combine plural objects together is not what Lin wants to do. What he really wanted to know was the principle of stacking blocks. Now that you know the principle, you can find a way to turn it into a magic circle to produce items of a certain shape on a fixed basis. The next step is to use programming language control to freely change the shape of the object.
The first-generation magic circle was a new type of magic prop designed based on this knowledge.
It looks like a large plate with eight fang-like protrusions symmetrically distributed on the eight sides of the plate. There are eight kinds of gems representing power at the tip of the protrusion. In addition to being used to control power, it also has a function similar to the arcane eye. It can scan and analyze the shape and physical properties of the objects on the plate, including density, volume, weight, etc. basic data.
In terms of programmed control, as long as the correct engineering drawing information is input and sufficient amounts of materials are provided, the plate that is made into the magic circle can change the materials placed inside into the required shape and separate the excess parts. Of course, the input information must comply with certain standards, rather than just giving a child's doodle, it can also turn into a real object.
The most important point is that the magic circle can handle multiple objects at one time! It can even change the shape of the contents in its belly. In other words, you can directly use this thing to create an exquisite ball, or build an integrated engine including a crankshaft and pistons. It's just that the scale of the refining magic array is not large enough now, and the engines produced can only be used to assemble remote control model cars.
When Lin used the first generation magic circle to forge, he continued to repair the damaged heald arm components. And when every component truly met the same industrial standards, he realized that he seemed to have made something extraordinary again.
This is something even more useful than Earth’s 3D printing technology. Not only is the speed much faster, but the precision depends on the engineering data provided. In theory, molecular-level control can be achieved. But this cannot be verified.
For Leonardo, who came to help fix things, the emotion of seeing such a new toy was excitement. Whenever he has free time, he will try to input the drawings he drew into the magic formation, and then use a piece of magic material that is temporarily unavailable to actually create what he drew. Anyway, this process only consumes power and does not consume materials.
Therefore, during this period of time, the most common question Leonardo encountered after dinner was: "Teacher, why do the things I make become crooked again?"
The most common answer is: "Let's take a look at the picture you drew." "What you want to draw is an engineering drawing, not an abstract drawing, nor is it an essay sketch based only on impressions." "The inner diameter is 3 centimeters. What the hell is a cylinder with an outer diameter of 2 centimeters? You use dice to determine the size?" "Calculate! Calculate! Boy. Pictures can deceive people, the eyes can be deceived, but mathematics can't!"
"Well, teacher, what are abstract pictures?"
I'm sorry I wasted so much saliva, but you only pay attention to this!
This guy is easily distracted and is the worst person Lin has ever seen. Three sentences must be off topic!
"But teacher, why does it still make it if something goes wrong? Even though it's weird. But since it's wrong, why doesn't it just stop or show the error?"
One of the most admirable qualities of this guy is that even though he can go off topic, it doesn't mean that he doesn't care about the original topic. It will come back on its own.
...It means that the most basic error situation handling has never occurred to me. I am so used to the IDE reporting errors directly, or the design that if an error occurs, it will interrupt the running of the program. But reality is something in progress. No matter whether the original intention is right or wrong, it will definitely have a result. It is just that we don’t know whether the result is good or bad.
"Okay, you can help me try the machine first. I'll think about the parts that will go wrong, how to verify them in advance and issue warnings. That's right. This way, you can save power and waste it on making wrong things."
Knowing that he is just one of the mortals, Lin acknowledges his mistakes. No matter who made the mistake, they should think about ways to remedy it.
The Starry Sky of Magic Tower /book/61599/
