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Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:10 am
by DaveMcW
I built a full color movie player. See it in action:

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Or download the save: sandstorm.zip


It has a 178x100 display, and 34MB of memory. In theory it could run at 60 FPS, in practice it runs at 1 FPS in Factorio 0.14.

I designed the movie player in 10 sections, then built them all from the same blueprint.
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Each section has 3 parts: display, decoder, and memory.
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Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:13 am
by DaveMcW
Display

I use this combinator design to fit many color signals on one wire.
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The processing time is O(n^2) where n is the number of signals the wire. So I split the signals between 5 wires to improve performance. Three wires can run along a column of combinators, and the other two hop along lamps to reach the distant combinators. The wire diagram looks like this. (They are really all green wires.)
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Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:15 am
by DaveMcW
Decoder

The decoder takes 5x 30-bit signals as input, and produces 50x 3-bit colors as output.
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Here is how it works on a binary level:
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Encoder

I published my encoder script on GitHub: https://github.com/DaveMcW/factorio-movie-maker

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:17 am
by DaveMcW
Memory

The memory uses a simple lookup scheme, with a frame select signal on the green wire and 180 data signals on the red wire.
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This decider combinator setup has poor performance when used with a high number of signals. Here are my performance stats:
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Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:43 am
by Danielv123
This is all well and good, but... Songname?

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:21 am
by Smarty
holy.. but... but..

That is amazing!

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 12:34 pm
by Acarin
Dave, you never cease to amaze me with your Factorio skills. That is... Extremely impressive :-)

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 1:23 pm
by Grimakar
You really should put this save to the Performance optimization - post your saves Thread. This really makes my computer burn :D

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:00 pm
by Necriptos
holy hell how on earth

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:18 pm
by jasa_m
amazing!!

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:21 pm
by steinio
How can i watch the Netflix Series? :)

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:00 pm
by RichPL
I'm out....

srs tho.

I consider myself not too un-smart, heck sometimes I get a little swell of pride when I do something moderately clever. But this, this blows my freekin' mind.

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:20 am
by Axios
Amazing! Congratulations!

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:39 am
by impetus maximus
Factorio might get an AO rating now. :lol:

really impressive. holy cow.

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:44 am
by JJosh
But before we talk about the circuit network, we have to talk about parallel universes.

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:16 am
by Grimakar
Hey Dave, you made it. The Gamestar is writing about you^^
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/factorio/ ... 05606.html

Hope you understand german :D

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:06 am
by GosuGian
Holyshit!
MIND = BLOWN

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:28 pm
by Zeblote
60000 views in 1 day ...?

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:09 pm
by aober93
yeas got news coverage lol

Re: Movie Player

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:53 pm
by Rahjital
Holy crap, 34 megabytes of memory! With that you could store the entirety of Doom 1 and 2 and still have 8MB to spare. That's seriously impressive!