The reason why the printing machine was made by the craftsmen of the Technology Guild was because Lin Ben intended to make this knowledge public and protect his own interests as much as possible. In addition to establishing his academic status, he also wanted to speed up the spread of knowledge about the maze.
The reason why he made the jacquard by himself was because he wanted to keep this knowledge a secret, whether it was the method of making silk or the jacquard technology that came from Earth and had been magically modified by him.
On Earth, the fire of the first industrial revolution was the steam engine, but what really drove the flames of the industrial revolution was the light industry with the main focus on textiles. The former was just an improvement in technology, but the latter was clearly an industry that could be used at a faster speed and in a simpler way to earn money.
Marco Lin didn't want to give away his money-making technology for nothing. Did he really think that he had transmigrated to save all living beings?
On one hand, the jacquard machine still needed to be researched and improved. It wasn't like the Manroland printing machine, which could be used as a fighting force as long as it was made.
Since everything still needed to be modified, instead of wasting time communicating with the craftsmen and asking them to modify or make new parts, the things they made might not necessarily meet his requirements. If they did poorly, he would have to redo it. It was better to do it himself and get it done in one go.
The designer of the jacquard machine's automatic control program was, of course, Fen. As the original leader of the Silver Bearded Dwarves' peaceful armed automation system, Lich was already better at it than anyone else. Including sensing, feedback, and automatic judgment, she had already established a set of judgment logic. As long as she confirmed the actual situation, she could immediately come up with a solution.
The most meticulous girl, Kaya, was in charge of a new job, which was also quite important. In the process of making Sichuan brocade, there was the so-called craftsmen and the picking of the flowers. It was the process of converting the drawn pattern into the printing process of the weaving process. And for this work, Marco Lin wasn't satisfied with the handmade flowers similar to the Sichuan brocade process. Instead, he wanted to program it.
This involved starting with the analysis of the picture, pixelating it and converting it into the longitude and latitude of the silk thread. And because someone didn't just want to make repeated and symmetrical patterns, but wanted to sprinkle the brocade cloth like a painting, he also needed to add color analysis, estimation of the amount of use, and so on.
The most troublesome thing was the gradation of colors. For this reason, Lin Feng taught the girl to use the concept of three primary colors and four primary colors to increase color. In other words, the threads of different colors were densely arranged according to different numbers, which could give people a new kind of color vision.
However, giving such a suggestion was like increasing the difficulty of the machine itself, because the complexity of the jacquard bundle would also increase. However, there was also a benefit to doing this. It could reduce the variety of colors used in the materials, allowing for more color variations.
Of course, these demands were not all decided by a certain person on the spot. Although he had the original brocade machine as a foundation, it was also because he clearly knew what kind of work he wanted to complete in the end that he could continuously improve the original loom.
The development of the jacquard machine was neither smooth nor not. There were no bottlenecks in the process, nor were there any mechanical structures that were difficult to solve. However, after one problem was solved, another one would pop up. This had almost become a certain someone's daily routine.
Whenever there was a new problem, in order to solve it, not only would the structure of the machine need to be modified, even the control program of Fen would need to be changed accordingly. The most common thing to do was to miniaturize the original structure and increase the number of components.
For example, the control arm of the jacquard bundle. The more detailed the design, the more complicated the changes would be. In order to meet the needs of these changes, he could only choose to reduce the number of threads per bundle and increase the number of bundles per bundle.
In order to achieve this, when the number of diagonal bundles could no longer be arranged horizontally, of course, he could only reduce the size of the original Jacquard bundle and reduce the space it took up.
Usually, when a certain structure had to be miniaturized, the number of components would be so large that it would cause a person to break down. Fen and Kaya, who had joined the development of the jacquard machine, were originally only responsible for the program. At times like this, they would also be pulled down to do the physical modification work.
The two of them, who did not understand why such a complicated loom had to be made, were almost driven crazy by a certain someone. Hallumi originally wanted to help, but just by looking at the structure of the blueprint and the number of modifications that needed to be made, the girl was defeated. She used the excuse that she had to raise silkworms to refine silk and record the results of the enchantment of the silk blends to run away.
More importantly, these modifications were far from being finalized. They could be amended at any time. Just as the two women were about to strangle a certain man to death after working hard for a few days, Lin decided to turn on the machine and do a practical test.
In the process of developing the jacquard machine, he had used weaving threads that were in circulation on the market for testing. However, the quality and thickness of those ordinary twine threads were worlds apart from the silk threads. Thus, Lin had only used them to test the operation of the machine and had not actually woven a bolt of cloth.
On the other hand, the moth formula for the silk threads had not been finalized. Now, there was only Hallumi, who had been reeling in order to collect data, and such piecemeal results. However, because of the accumulation of experiments, there was also a considerable amount of silk threads that had been reeled.
These silk threads came from different moth species, their quality was not uniform, and their enchantment standards were different. However, they all met a certain someone's minimum standard, which was to add a protective spell to resist the alien energy of the dimensional gap. Looking at the quantity, it was estimated that it was enough to make a brocade handkerchief. Thus, a certain someone randomly found a picture of a sparrow in the photo library and threw it to Kaya for preliminary analysis.
After obtaining the required color of the silk thread, she used a painting dye on the market to hastily dye the silk thread and put it on the spool of the jacquard machine. After the analysis of Kaya's program was imported into Fen's control program, the machine quickly began to operate.
From the beginning, he had never thought of replicating the Sichuan brocade craftsmanship. This was also because the parts that had been made public were all traditional handmade methods. The length of the fabric that could be woven in a day was only a few centimeters. Wouldn't it take several years to gather all the fabric that he needed? He could not afford to use such a precious item, nor could he afford to wait.
Although he was developing in the direction of automation, he was completely modifying the jacquard machine without caring about the cost. The purpose was to save some time and speed up the process so that he could use the fabric that he liked earlier. Thus, in order to design this automatic jacquard machine, Marco Lin could be said to have done his best. Furthermore, he had done his best to come up with various scenarios and come up with various countermeasures.
However, no matter what, he was still a layman in the textile industry. Whether or not the jacquard machine could be completed, whether or not the silk could be made would depend on the results in the end. Moreover, it was not difficult to guess that after the machine was tested, there would definitely be some problems that had not been discovered before. This was the prelude to a major change.
Almost all the people who cared about the silk stayed by the jacquard machine and watched as nearly a thousand silk threads were gradually woven into a square handkerchief under the operation of the machine. In particular, the picture of the sparrow that Lin had chosen. As the shuttle produced silk threads of different colors, they intersected and gradually took shape.
During this time, Fen and Lin each went to teach biology and mathematics classes. Finally, after dinner, the weaving of a 15-centimeter square handkerchief was completed. It was not completed yet, mainly because the accumulated silk threads had been used up. At the very end, there were a lot of empty spools running around, so it was a mess. However, at least the sparrow in the center of the handkerchief was completed.
"Is it done?" Halumi, who was squatting by the window and resting her chin on the windowsill, asked.
At this moment, Lin was stopping the operation of the jacquard machine and holding a pair of scissors, intending to cut off the end of the silk thread. However, even after cutting the only pair of scissors in the house until the blade broke, he still could not cut off the entire flat cable.
The three anxious women reached out and tried to remove the silk handkerchief in a flurry. However, the enchanted silk thread was tougher than expected. When Halumi was reeling silk, she did not do much to the end of the thread, which was why she did not discover this characteristic.
Just as the impatient girl was about to run off to get the Cassette Cutting and come back to deal with the small silk handkerchief, Lin took some time to accurately locate it and cut it off with the spatial ability of Blink, taking the long-awaited experimental product in his hands.
"How does it feel?" "How's the weaving?" "How's the enchantment effect?" The three women started with these three questions, and then they chattered non-stop, asking all kinds of strange questions one after another.
However, before they could answer, Halumi's hands were quick. She snatched the item first and rubbed it against her face. That special feeling of smoothness was incomparable to other kinds of fabrics. The blonde girl, who had the silk handkerchief against her face, could not help but reveal a satisfied and intoxicated expression. Also, the pattern was not like embroidery, which had obvious bumps and bumps.
Since the item was in her good sister's hands, Kaya did not hold back and pulled it out. She rubbed it with the palm of her hand and the back of her hand, feeling the light and soft texture. The silk handkerchief was so soft that it did not give off any discomfort. It was on a completely different level from those coarse clothes.
However, before Kaya could touch it to her heart's content, the Lich reached out, and the black-haired, brown-skinned girl naturally handed it over obediently. Fen rubbed the silk handkerchief as if she was serious. She looked up and down as if she was very professional. In fact, someone knew that the Lich was just putting on an act.
The silk of the Enchanted Land was a seller's market. As long as it was sold, even if it was slightly moth-eaten or defective, it would be the target of all the women. Under such rare circumstances, what kind of evaluation could they make? That would be absurd.
However, this silk handkerchief allowed the three women to confirm one thing, and that was that the homemade silk was really promising. Even their hard work over the past few days was nothing. They all went berserk, ready to turn on the power of the machine and make dozens of hundreds of feet of silk for fun.
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