The Magic Prince's reputation was indeed more useful than he had imagined. From the second day onwards, the stubborn old butler, Ahanu, who was acting as Carvey's public representative, no longer came to urge a certain someone to work.
On the contrary, it was as if the two experts who had become interested in playing would drive the broken car to the center from time to time to play. They could be said to be the most competent test drivers. Their main task was to cooperate with the special manufacturing team to modify cars No. 2 and No. 3 to be more approachable.
Apart from Azad and William Greco, no one else could control the two robotic monsters. Some people tried to drive with high gears and low speed, but it was very easy to stall or overshoot. They had to change it.
Lin Fan didn't care about how anxious the people in the Automobile Manufacturing and Research and Development Center were, but he didn't slack off at all. The two girls were responsible for restoring the operation of the silkworm house. Taking advantage of the fact that most of the house was destroyed this time, they simply dismantled and rebuilt it. With a lot of experience in classified breeding, of course they had some ideas. They planned and designed according to this new idea.
The house for the jacquard workshop was the fastest to be built, because it only needed a shell. There was no need for partitions or furniture inside, at most a few chairs. The rest of the machines had to be repaired by a certain someone himself. The only assistant was the new apprentice, Leonardo.
Although this Florentine boy didn't like to use magic, he liked to tinker with machines, especially with his hands. And not only did he help a lot with the dismantling and assembly, but he also had ideas on improving the machines. He could be said to be the most suitable assistant for a certain someone. As for the two girls who had been with him for a long time, although they were familiar with a certain someone's habits, their attitude towards the machines was not as enthusiastic and devoted as Leonardo's.
However, Lin wasn't just repairing the jacquard machine, but mixed in with another research. Thanks to the suggestion (sarcasm?) of Azad, the Devil Prince, before, Lin tried to create a tool based on the magic "Shaping," which had to be turned into a magic array with this first-circle apprentice-level spell.
Originally, the use of Shaping was to turn a variety of magic materials with different material characteristics into clay, and use one's hands, power, and imagination to change this magic material into the shape one wanted. However, there was still an error in the industrial specifications in this way. At this time, one had to rely on a hammer and file to make the final adjustments.
There were two ways to combine different magic materials using Shaping. One of them was the most commonly used method, which was to combine two different materials together by sticking them together.
The disadvantage was that it was very inconvenient to perfectly separate the two materials. Many people couldn't even do it. This was also the reason why most of the magic materials that were made into finished products could not be recycled. Moreover, there were many materials with very different characteristics that could not be glued together in this way. For example, the combination of metal and non-metal, this method would not work.
The other was to use a special structure to embed two different magic materials together. For those who had already mastered this technique, it could be said to be the most important private inheritance, and it was rarely made public. Even in the knowledge recorded by the Society of Sorcerers, there was very little about this technology. There were only some descriptions of the advantages and disadvantages of this method.
The advantage of using this technology was that in addition to the ease of recycling magic materials, the artifacts could be separated and combined at any time. This was a great advantage for transporting large items. And there was no need to consider whether the characteristics of the materials were similar. As long as it was a combination between solid and solid, this method could be done.
However, the disadvantage was that a mage with poor technique would leave too big a gap at the joint, causing the item to loosen and even be damaged. In addition, the joint surface was prone to cracks because it was not smooth enough. For a design that required airtightness, it was difficult to achieve complete airtightness with this technique.
In other words, this technique was not something that could be used just because one knew it. It had to be "refined" to be useful in the actual production of items. Otherwise, it was better not to use it. If the two materials were similar in nature, in terms of practical use, embedding was even worse than sticking.
Although this technique was mysterious, it happened to be the unique skill of the silver-bearded dwarves. At first, they even kept it a secret. If it wasn't for the fact that their embedding skills were not good enough, and they made a lot of failed products when making engines that required high airtightness, they came to ask someone for advice and exposed this skill.
If they hadn't even seen the real thing and only knew the description in the book, then so be it. But when the real thing was dangled in front of Lin, he guessed that this was a maze version of the mortise and tenon structure used for magic materials. And it was the kind that didn't need wedges to do extra fixing.
The troublesome part of this method was how to control two or more magic materials at the same time on a flat surface that couldn't be seen with the naked eye, one growing inwards and the other growing outwards. In the end, the concave and convex parts of the two fit tightly with each other, and this shape couldn't be a cone that was easy to loosen. It had to be an inverted cone or some other strange shape to jam the two or more objects that were to be connected.
The threshold of this technique was how to use shaping to control the invisible and untouchable parts of the magic materials into the shape that one wanted. This method was actually not difficult at all to explain. Even when any mage taught their apprentices, they would use the same words and make the same requirements.
In the maze version of magic, if one didn't pinch it with their hands, it was to use one's imagination in the process of casting the spell and visualize the appearance that one wanted the casting object to become. As long as one's imagination was richer and more specific, the effect of shaping would be better. And to achieve internal embedding, one could only imagine the specific shape of the embedding.
Using today's vision, Lin Xiang re-analyzed the spell Shaping. The spell model of Shaping was the most basic unit of authority to trigger this magic effect. Using this basic unit as a building block, he could stack the building blocks into whatever shape he wanted. Then, as long as the quality of the item remained unchanged, it would gradually change into the shape of the 'building blocks'.
How to combine multiple objects together wasn't something that Lin Xiang wanted to do. What he really wanted to know was the principle of this building block stack. Now that he knew the principle, he could find a way to transform it into a magic array to produce an object of a certain shape. The next step was to use programming language control to freely change the shape of the object.
The first generation of magic arrays was a new type of magic tool designed on the basis of such knowledge.
It looked like a large plate with eight fang-like protrusions symmetrically distributed on the eight sides of the plate. At the tip of the protrusions were eight gems that represented authority. In addition to being used to control authority, it also had a function similar to the Arcane Eye, which could scan and analyze the shape and physical characteristics of the object on the plate, including basic data such as density, volume, weight, and so on.
In terms of programmatic control, as long as the correct engineering information was input and enough materials were provided, the plate of magic arrays could change the materials placed inside into the required shape and separate the excess parts. Of course, the input information had to follow certain standards, and it couldn't be just given a child's doodle and turn it into a real object.
The most important point was that the magic array could handle multiple objects at once! It could even change the shape of the object in the belly. In other words, one could directly use this thing to create an exquisite ball, or an integrated engine that included a crankshaft and a piston. It was just that the scale of the magic array was not large enough, and the engine created could only be used to assemble a remote-controlled model car.
When Lin Xiang used the first generation of magic arrays, the damaged lifting arm components were continuously repaired. And when each component was truly identical to the industrial standard, he realized that he seemed to have made something amazing again.
This was something that was even more useful than the 3D printing technology on Earth. Not only was it much faster, but the precision was also dependent on the engineering data provided. In theory, it could be controlled at the molecular level. But this was something that couldn't be verified.
For Leonardo, who came to help repair things, he was very excited to see such a new toy. Whenever he was free, he would try to input the blueprint he drew into the magic array, and then use a piece of magic material that he didn't need for the time being to actually create what he drew. In any case, this process only consumed authority and not materials.
So during this period, the most common question Leonardo asked after dinner was, "Teacher, why did the things I made become crooked again?"
The most common answer was, "Show me the drawing you drew." "You want to draw an engineering drawing, not an abstract drawing or a sketch based on your impression." "What the hell is a cylinder with an inner diameter of three centimeters and an outer diameter of two centimeters? Did you use a die to determine the size? " "Calculate! Young man. Drawings can deceive people, eyes can be deceived, but math can't! "
"Well, teacher, what's an abstract drawing?"
I wasted so much saliva, and you only paid attention to this little thing!
This guy was easily distracted, and of all the people Lin had seen, he was the most easily distracted. He would always go off topic in three sentences!
"But teacher, if there's a mistake, it will still make it. Although it's done very strangely. But if it's wrong, why doesn't it just stop or show the error? "
One of the most admirable characteristics of this kid was that although he would go off topic, it didn't mean that he didn't care about the original topic. He could even make it right himself.
… It was the most basic error handling, but he didn't think of it. He was too used to the IDE directly reporting errors, or the design that would interrupt the program if there was an error. But reality was something that was in progress, whether the original intention was right or wrong, it would have a result, but whether the result was good or bad was still unknown.
"Okay, help me test the machine first. I'll think about the parts that will go wrong, how to verify it beforehand, and give a warning. That's right, this way, we can save authority and waste it on making the wrong thing. "
Knowing that he was just one of the mortals, Lin promised to correct his mistakes. No matter who made the mistake, they should think of a way to fix it.
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