Chapter 870: Projects
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Chapter 870: Projects
The second of his research projects was first intended as part of the first as it was related to the small ants he was using to do Arborist work. Rather than requiring the close care of an Arborist over long periods of time to shape plants with Array Symbols as they grew, small ants were used to do the same thing. Each ant was far from being smart or capable enough to know how to form a complete symbol on their own, but using Ancestral Memories they were able to raise a colony with the ability to collectively form a single symbol. Then, caretakers only needed to indicate the positions of each array symbol upon the growing plants and the respective ant colonies would respond to their specific scent marker and do their job. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.
After the initial location was marked, ants place their own pheromone trails which they use to guide those of their colony to the proper locations. A weapon might require thirty symbols, but only twelve unique symbols. To this end twelve giant colonies were all that was necessary as theyd handle multiple symbols on each weapon and work on a field of hundreds of weapon trees at the same time.
This first project was constantly being improved upon, with the goal to merge two different schools of thought together. They had already been able to incorporate certain resources obtained from Demonic Beasts and Insects into these growing trees. For a Blacksmith, things like claws, teeth, hides, scales, and horns would require treatment in the Qi powered flames of the Blacksmith before they could be incorporated into metals and their power absorbed into the weapon. Arborists on the other hand used these materials as fertilizer, and there was a careful balance of certain types of plants that were used which had the right abilities to draw sustenance from each specific type of animal material. This was further compounded when trying to combine different materials and required specially grafting different plants together to reach a specific end result.
Electricity did not function like it did on Earth in this world. Hed already found it impossible to create an electric motor because of this same problem. That meant there was no way for him to create a computer in the manner that he was familiar with. Of course, even if electricity did function in the same way there was no way he would know how to build the type of computer he was used to. He didnt even know how to construct a vacuum tube or a cathode ray tube, let alone the more complicated resistors, transistors, or capacitors. There was definitely no way he was going to be able to replicate a microprocessor. He might have once been a Computer Programmer, but he always dealt entirely with software. While the degree might have the words Computer Science upon them, microprocessors fell under the umbrella of electrical or electronic engineering. Chip Designer was a long way off from Software Developer.
That said, he did have a few courses on the basic principles of a computer and that rough knowledge was what he was using to guide him. At its core, a computer ran upon something called the Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU. In essence, it took two values, then performed a comparison or simple mathematical operation on them and output a result. It could usually add, subtract, multiply, or divide(though binary division seemed to be a huge topic). As for comparisons it would tell which value was larger or if they were equal. Then, it sent the result to the accumulator. The accumulator was a fancy name for the output.
At the base level it was pretty much just a calculator that used binary. What made it into a computer was the addition of two parts, data storage and the control unit. There are many levels of memory in modern computers with multiple types of fast caches, ram, and hard drives. Without a way to store data there would be no way to do complicated multi-part calculations or operations. The control unit, along with a clock, was the final step to make things into a computer. The control unit managed the instructions that were sent to the arithmetic logic unit and their timing.
In a greatly simplified conceptualization of a computer, the control unit filled an instruction register with an operation to do, the arithmetic logic unit performed the operation, and then the result got sent back into data storage. There were many thousands of complications and optimizations between this simple idea and the functioning of a personal computer, but he was only concerned with reproducing the basics in a biological form.
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Chapter 870: Projects
The second of his research projects was first intended as part of the first as it was related to the small ants he was using to do Arborist work. Rather than requiring the close care of an Arborist over long periods of time to shape plants with Array Symbols as they grew, small ants were used to do the same thing. Each ant was far from being smart or capable enough to know how to form a complete symbol on their own, but using Ancestral Memories they were able to raise a colony with the ability to collectively form a single symbol. Then, caretakers only needed to indicate the positions of each array symbol upon the growing plants and the respective ant colonies would respond to their specific scent marker and do their job. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.
After the initial location was marked, ants place their own pheromone trails which they use to guide those of their colony to the proper locations. A weapon might require thirty symbols, but only twelve unique symbols. To this end twelve giant colonies were all that was necessary as theyd handle multiple symbols on each weapon and work on a field of hundreds of weapon trees at the same time.
This first project was constantly being improved upon, with the goal to merge two different schools of thought together. They had already been able to incorporate certain resources obtained from Demonic Beasts and Insects into these growing trees. For a Blacksmith, things like claws, teeth, hides, scales, and horns would require treatment in the Qi powered flames of the Blacksmith before they could be incorporated into metals and their power absorbed into the weapon. Arborists on the other hand used these materials as fertilizer, and there was a careful balance of certain types of plants that were used which had the right abilities to draw sustenance from each specific type of animal material. This was further compounded when trying to combine different materials and required specially grafting different plants together to reach a specific end result.
Electricity did not function like it did on Earth in this world. Hed already found it impossible to create an electric motor because of this same problem. That meant there was no way for him to create a computer in the manner that he was familiar with. Of course, even if electricity did function in the same way there was no way he would know how to build the type of computer he was used to. He didnt even know how to construct a vacuum tube or a cathode ray tube, let alone the more complicated resistors, transistors, or capacitors. There was definitely no way he was going to be able to replicate a microprocessor. He might have once been a Computer Programmer, but he always dealt entirely with software. While the degree might have the words Computer Science upon them, microprocessors fell under the umbrella of electrical or electronic engineering. Chip Designer was a long way off from Software Developer.
That said, he did have a few courses on the basic principles of a computer and that rough knowledge was what he was using to guide him. At its core, a computer ran upon something called the Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU. In essence, it took two values, then performed a comparison or simple mathematical operation on them and output a result. It could usually add, subtract, multiply, or divide(though binary division seemed to be a huge topic). As for comparisons it would tell which value was larger or if they were equal. Then, it sent the result to the accumulator. The accumulator was a fancy name for the output.
At the base level it was pretty much just a calculator that used binary. What made it into a computer was the addition of two parts, data storage and the control unit. There are many levels of memory in modern computers with multiple types of fast caches, ram, and hard drives. Without a way to store data there would be no way to do complicated multi-part calculations or operations. The control unit, along with a clock, was the final step to make things into a computer. The control unit managed the instructions that were sent to the arithmetic logic unit and their timing.
In a greatly simplified conceptualization of a computer, the control unit filled an instruction register with an operation to do, the arithmetic logic unit performed the operation, and then the result got sent back into data storage. There were many thousands of complications and optimizations between this simple idea and the functioning of a personal computer, but he was only concerned with reproducing the basics in a biological form.
Chapter 870: ProjectsThe second of his research projects was first intended as part of the first as it was related to the small ants he was using to do Arborist work. Rather than requiring the close care of an Arborist over long periods of time to shape plants with Array Symbols as they grew, small ants were used to do the same thing. Each ant was far from being smart or capable enough to know how to form a complete symbol on their own, but using Ancestral Memories they were able to raise a colony with the ability to collectively form a single symbol. Then, caretakers only needed to indicate the positions of each array symbol upon the growing plants and the respective ant colonies would respond to their specific scent marker and do their job. This chapter was first shared on the Nvl1n platform.After the initial location was marked, ants place their own pheromone trails which they use to guide those of their colony to the proper locations. A weapon might require thirty symbols, but only twelve unique symbols. To this end twelve giant colonies were all that was necessary as theyd handle multiple symbols on each weapon and work on a field of hundreds of weapon trees at the same time. This first project was constantly being improved upon, with the goal to merge two different schools of thought together. They had already been able to incorporate certain resources obtained from Demonic Beasts and Insects into these growing trees. For a Blacksmith, things like claws, teeth, hides, scales, and horns would require treatment in the Qi powered flames of the Blacksmith before they could be incorporated into metals and their power absorbed into the weapon. Arborists on the other hand used these materials as fertilizer, and there was a careful balance of certain types of plants that were used which had the right abilities to draw sustenance from each specific type of animal material. This was further compounded when trying to combine different materials and required specially grafting different plants together to reach a specific end result. Electricity did not function like it did on Earth in this world. Hed already found it impossible to create an electric motor because of this same problem. That meant there was no way for him to create a computer in the manner that he was familiar with. Of course, even if electricity did function in the same way there was no way he would know how to build the type of computer he was used to. He didnt even know how to construct a vacuum tube or a cathode ray tube, let alone the more complicated resistors, transistors, or capacitors. There was definitely no way he was going to be able to replicate a microprocessor. He might have once been a Computer Programmer, but he always dealt entirely with software. While the degree might have the words Computer Science upon them, microprocessors fell under the umbrella of electrical or electronic engineering. Chip Designer was a long way off from Software Developer. That said, he did have a few courses on the basic principles of a computer and that rough knowledge was what he was using to guide him. At its core, a computer ran upon something called the Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU. In essence, it took two values, then performed a comparison or simple mathematical operation on them and output a result. It could usually add, subtract, multiply, or dividethough binary division seemed to be a huge topic. As for comparisons it would tell which value was larger or if they were equal. Then, it sent the result to the accumulator. The accumulator was a fancy name for the output. At the base level it was pretty much just a calculator that used binary. What made it into a computer was the addition of two parts, data storage and the control unit. There are many levels of memory in modern computers with multiple types of fast caches, ram, and hard drives. Without a way to store data there would be no way to do complicated multi-part calculations or operations. The control unit, along with a clock, was the final step to make things into a computer. The control unit managed the instructions that were sent to the arithmetic logic unit and their timing. In a greatly simplified conceptualization of a computer, the control unit filled an instruction register with an operation to do, the arithmetic logic unit performed the operation, and then the result got sent back into data storage. There were many thousands of complications and optimizations between this simple idea and the functioning of a personal computer, but he was only concerned with reproducing the basics in a biological form.
