Although the scenery of the sea of clouds is also very good, it is obviously too monotonous, looking at this empty virtual world with nothing but the floating platform they are standing on, Lu Ze couldn't help but say: "Is this the community space?" It doesn't look good. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Tianhuo said: "This is probably because our 'swan song' has just been established, and everyone is entering the community space for the first time, so this virtual world is still in its initial state, like a blank piece of drawing paper, and we can shape it into what we want as we want." ”

"Create the world as you like?" Lu Ze's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

In the two months since waking up from hibernation, Lu Ze has also experienced a lot of virtual worlds, from Sarah's Eden world, to Lanye's singularity game world, etc., etc., etc., but all the virtual worlds he has experienced are created by others, and the only thing he can change as he wants is his own "home" in the virtual world, but no matter how he changes, he can only change the structure and decoration of the "home" within a limited scope, and cannot expand it indefinitely like a real virtual world.

Lu Ze has always felt very regretful, and after hearing that he can transform this community space as he wants, he immediately became excited.

At this time, the singularity's voice sounded: "Now that the people have arrived, now I will tell you about the issue of building a community space." ”

Lu Ze looked in the direction where the singularity sound came from, only to see a fist-sized ball of golden light suddenly appear in the middle of the crowd, obviously, this ball was the incarnation of the singularity in the virtual world.

Singularity: "First of all, I have to tell you one thing with regret, it is impossible for you to transform this community space as you want, even if the community space is far larger than your 'home', its size is still limited. ”

"What restrictions?" Lu Ze asked.

Singularity: "The reason for the restriction is that human computing resources are limited. For example, now, the size of this virtual world seems to be boundless, but in fact, this virtual world is only the size of the platform we are standing on, and the surrounding sea of clouds can be understood as a kind of background, which is done to prevent the waste of computing resources. ”

"Ugh." Hearing this, Lu Ze couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Although he had expected it, after learning this reality, Lu Ze was still extremely disappointed.

After coming to the future, everything he saw and heard was so incredible, which made Lu Ze sigh again and again at the miracles created by human civilization, and even had a feeling that human civilization was omnipotent. This was the first time he realized that there were things that human civilization could not do.

Lu Li knew what Lu Ze was thinking, and said with a smile: "Lu Ze, I think you should think about it from a different angle." I don't think it's because of the limited resources of computing power, but because it shows the greatness of human imagination. Even in an age of such advanced technology, computing resources cannot satisfy our imagination. ”

Lu Ze nodded slightly, looked at the singularity again, and said, "Singularity, you can continue to introduce." ”

Tianhuo also said to the singularity: "I usually come into contact with the design of virtual worlds, but they are all for food to create illusions, and I have never heard of the problem of computing resources, can you tell us more about it?" ”

"Okay." Singularity said: "Nowadays, the vast majority of people do not have access to the underlying architecture of the virtual world, because digital neural networks are so complex that they need deep computer knowledge to understand the principles. ”

The corner of his mouth suddenly hooked up with a smile at this time, obviously he belonged to someone who had some understanding of the underlying structure of the virtual world.

"For the sake of understanding, I'll use the concept of memory in computers in the past as an analogy." Singularity: "Memory, that is, the storage space of computing resources, all information can be decomposed into 0 and 1, you should all know this, right?" ”

Several people nodded, even if they didn't know anything about computers, they still knew these basic things.

Singularity continued: "The amount of data generated by a living person in the virtual world is 0.8 to 1.2 gigabytes, which is about 10 billion zeros and 1s. ”

"How can it be so little?" Lu Ze asked suddenly.

You know, a hundred years ago, any personal computer had more than that much memory, doesn't this mean that in the past, a good personal computer could run the virtual world?

Singularity said: "This 1Gb of data refers to the amount of data generated by images that are so vivid that people can't distinguish them from reality, and they don't really simulate every cell of a person." This is an ordinary virtual world, and if you follow the requirements of virtual games, it often takes up 10 to 100 Gb of space for one person. ”

Lu Ze said: "I see. It's like some computer games in the past where characters can be almost like real people. ”

Singularity continued: "In addition, the amount of data used by a room-sized virtual world is about 1 to 10 gigabytes, depending on the size of the room and the complexity of the decoration inside. A building is 1,000 to 10,000 Gb, and a city is between 1 million and 100 million Gb depending on its size and complexity. Of course, the virtual world we are in now is the only platform that can be generated according to such standards, and the sea of clouds in the distance exists as a background, and many details have been 'generalized', and all of them add up to only 10GB of resources. ”

"It's reasonable." Lu Zedao.

Singularity said: "Our community has just been established, and the number of people is small, of course, it is impossible to occupy the computing resources belonging to all mankind without limit, so the maximum computing resources we can use when transforming the community space is 10 million Gb, that is, our community space can be equivalent to a medium-sized city at most." ”

"10 million gigabytes?" Hearing this, Lu Ze couldn't help but gasp.

You know, before he hibernated, the world's largest supercomputer had only 1 million gigabytes of memory space, and their community had just been established, and they could use the computing resources equivalent to ten supercomputers to build a virtual world, so what was there to be content with?

Finally, Singularity said: "If we need to build a larger virtual world, we need to have a special purpose, and then we will apply to the Star Spirit Network in the name of the community." (To be continued.) )