Act 487. Analog vs. digital signals
In the large conference room of the Dawn Treader, at the end of the long circular table, several black crystals were lying quietly on the table, which were the data of the large cavity investigated by the probe many times in the past few days.
Broly from the Storm Council. Augustine raised his hand, and one of the crystals slowly floated up, flying into the center of a makeshift magic circle, and with the infusion of magic power, the circle began to glow, and a projection appeared inside the crystal, which was the data it had collected.
This data looks like a slightly undulating but generally stable horizontal line, representing the concentration of magic around the detector, its detection method is to use a highly sensitive material to make a probe, through the probe in different magic concentrations will produce subtle magic or current to detect, and because of this, the range of this detector has a certain range, if it exceeds its range in a short period of time, then the instrument is easily damaged.
After magnifying it, people did not see the expected brief peaks as reported by Lord Alberton's detector, and then the high-level mages looked at several other data, only to find that the existing images had short high peaks, and some did not.
"Is it because these probes were destroyed at the same time that they detected the crest?"
Wild. Regens touched his sparse chin again, and the data from about sixteen detectors were drawn on paper, floating in front of people's eyes, comparing them one by one.
"Or maybe the detectors have different resolutions, and some of them can't detect the signal that appears in such a short period of time."
Eagles. Field looked at Reiner, who knew that Reiner had recently been working on a device called a magic computer, and that Field had received a sample in which some of the signals were transmitted in a similar way to the detector's signal acquisition, and he thought Reiner might be able to see something.
"Is there any specific performance data for these detectors?"
Reiner looked at the person in charge of the observation post, who immediately nodded and took out the documents from the storage bag.
As you can see, these detectors generally have very high resolution, but some detectors use analog signal inputs, while others use digital signal inputs.
Mages have been working on the communication mechanism for several years to address the errors that may occur during the transmission of mana signals, and originally, all information will be recorded in the original local crystal, and then played back locally, such a process can easily be affected by the magic of the outside world, resulting in distortion and error.
Thus, under the impetus of Lord Pragues, the process of replacing analog signals with digital signals began rapidly.
To put it simply, the digital signal is to collect the signal at a certain time interval, and at the same time compare the collected signal with the reference signal, and convert it into a discrete signal with only a fixed value according to certain rules.
The advantage of digital signals is that they can minimize the possible impact of external magic on the signal transmission process, and the disadvantage is that to some extent, there is no way to "truthfully" transmit the situation at that time, but with the improvement of magic technology in recent years, the accuracy and resolution of digital signals are getting higher and higher, and they are almost no different from the original analog signals, and because of this, in the process of developing the magic computer in Reiner, a lot of trouble was spared.
At first, he thought that the sampling interval of the digital signal was too long compared to the impact time, but after carefully examining the corresponding model and function images, he found that both analog and digital signal detectors detected peaks and did not detect them.
Lord Alberton's detector naturally uses digital signal transmission, and although his accuracy and resolution are higher than those used before, it is not actually out of the realm of digital signals.
"Although it can be explained by simple individual detector differences, I still think that there may be something hidden behind the pattern of this signal."
Lord Alberton looked at the contrasting images and spoke.
Indeed, before the discovery of this strange crest, people simply thought that the magical nature of this big hollow was no different from the outside, but after discovering it, no details could be missed.
Reiner went through the performance data again, this time focusing on the difference between those that had peaks and those that didn't.
At this time, Reiner suddenly had a burst of inspiration.
This fleeting inspiration quickly turned into his actions, and Reiner asked aloud as he put down the papers.
"Can you show me the same type of machine as these detectors?"
Hearing Reiner's inquiry, the person in charge of the observation post was stunned, not knowing what Reiner was thinking.
However, he quickly nodded and pulled the drawings out of his storage bag.
This is not a simple floor plan, but a high-level drawing that can be projected into the whole after entering the magic power, and the observation post has been measured many times before, and they naturally received the corresponding design drawings in order to overhaul the detector.
With a little bit of magic in Reiner, the drawings on the original plane burst into a flash of light, projecting an image of a cylindrical detector on the paper, which, according to Reiner's idea, could also disassemble itself and magnify the structure of any part of the body.
"This is the detector that detected the crest of the wave."
Said the head of the observation post.
Everyone looked at the detector in front of Reiner, but they couldn't see anything special.
Reiner carefully studied the detector, which corroborated with the inspiration in his heart just now, and he did not rush to conclusions, but asked the person in charge to take out the drawings of several other detectors and check them one by one.
Soon, Reiner had finished checking the blueprints, and he put them down and breathed a sigh of relief, for his guesses, at least for now, were in line with the facts.
"What's wrong, Reiner?"
Field asked, and he went over the blueprints, but couldn't see any clues.
"I have a guess, Lord Field."
Reiner said that he fired two blueprints at the same time, one that detected an anomaly and one that didn't.
"Although we have a wide variety of detectors for large void releases, in general, they can be distinguished into two categories by a certain feature."
He pointed to one of them, a cylindrical detector with a light-sensitive magic crystal capable of projecting what it saw.
"That's what you can shoot and what you don't."