Flash Grid

**brandeno01** · 01-10-2008

Well i need to make a grid useing the flash mem gate
but how do i...?
i need it to be like the 64x64 but 500x500 instead
and to some it all up i need it in an exprestion

**Fatal_Exception** · 01-10-2008

First of all, 500x500 is a rather huge amount of memory. Secondly, an expression gate will take forever to sequentially access that amount of memory.

**Noctune9** · 01-11-2008

Make a memory interface with the exp gate.

Something along the lines of

Code:

Address = X * 501 + Y

And BAM, you got yourself a 500x500 flash memory.

Edit: On second thought, this might be better.

Code:

Size = 500
Address = clamp(X,0,Size) * (Size+1) + clamp(Y,0,Size)

It's more fool-proof and efficient than the previous code.

**Syranide** · 01-11-2008

What on earth are you going to use it for?
Filling all that up would take more than an hour.

**brandeno01** · 01-11-2008

Well its a HUGE scanner and the only way i can think of geting it to display with a holograph with would be orbs way of the grid useing a 64x64 but mine needs to be 500x500 at least

**Syranide** · 01-11-2008

You realize there is no sensible way to actually make that work?
We are talking lots more than a megabyte in transfer to the clients, and more than an hour in scanning.
And I don't think you'll find any way of displaying all of it.

**brandeno01** · 01-11-2008

It only takes a min to scan a 500 by 500

And thanks for the encouragement

**Noctune9** · 01-11-2008

Did some calculations and it would take 62500 seconds for one ranger to scan 500x500.
17 hours...

(500x500 area with 4 physics updates.)

**Fatal_Exception** · 01-11-2008

And thanks for the encouragement[/b]

Encouragement is all well and good, but sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief while muttering "This guy's crazy."

There is a point where you have to realize that your idea is not technically feasible. Even if it did "work", you would be playing an absolute slideshow with all the lag. A hologram with a few thousand points reduces my pc to a couple fps. Imagine what 250,000 would do.