Post by droctagonapus on Jul 22, 2014 19:10:20 GMT
version 8.0 adds the conveyor belt dot type.
IMO its a pretty neat type. Things get moves counterclockwise around the conveyor belt. Dust type things fall off when they can.
I was surprised to note that conveyor belt will also move solid type dots such as metal. These materials will not fall off the end, and will instead follow the underside of the conveyor belt.
Not including screenshots because I don't feel like it.
Somewhat interesting effect in that things will jump one dot gaps in the conveyor belt. This often leads to the dot moving two spaces instead of one. If one makes a dotted conveyor belt, things will travel on it at a higher rate.
However this only works well with solids, because more dust like particles tend to get stuck.
The overall rate isn't quite twice the speed. It seems less than 1.5 speed. 1.3 speed maybe? (~4/3)
ok just did some counting, it seems to be something like 32/27 ?
looking for longer gives 64/48 which is 4/3 which seems about right.
I think it might be possible to make gates in this.
With metal traveling around on conveyor belts.
I got a thing working where the first dot of metal that travels on the thing will get stuck, but the second one won't. This could be used to count, and along with an or gate could create an and gate.
However these gates aren't resettable.
(at least I haven't figured out how to make them resettable yet)
generally the thing works like
(my get and set are broken)
(where 0 is empty, c is conveyor)
000000000in0000
000ccccccccc000
000000000000000
00c000000000000
So thats a thing.
IMO its a pretty neat type. Things get moves counterclockwise around the conveyor belt. Dust type things fall off when they can.
I was surprised to note that conveyor belt will also move solid type dots such as metal. These materials will not fall off the end, and will instead follow the underside of the conveyor belt.
Not including screenshots because I don't feel like it.
Somewhat interesting effect in that things will jump one dot gaps in the conveyor belt. This often leads to the dot moving two spaces instead of one. If one makes a dotted conveyor belt, things will travel on it at a higher rate.
However this only works well with solids, because more dust like particles tend to get stuck.
The overall rate isn't quite twice the speed. It seems less than 1.5 speed. 1.3 speed maybe? (~4/3)
ok just did some counting, it seems to be something like 32/27 ?
looking for longer gives 64/48 which is 4/3 which seems about right.
I think it might be possible to make gates in this.
With metal traveling around on conveyor belts.
I got a thing working where the first dot of metal that travels on the thing will get stuck, but the second one won't. This could be used to count, and along with an or gate could create an and gate.
However these gates aren't resettable.
(at least I haven't figured out how to make them resettable yet)
generally the thing works like
(my get and set are broken)
(where 0 is empty, c is conveyor)
000000000in0000
000ccccccccc000
000000000000000
00c000000000000
So thats a thing.