Chapter 145 R&D Plans

The scientific and technological talents are already in place, and although Yao En, an old madman, owes a lot of money, his enthusiasm for the scientific and technological inventions of the dwarf is still very commendable.

He soon began to demonstrate his theory and design the scheme with the help of Io.

Two feasible solutions were designed.

The first is the motion picture film program, which is the technology to develop photosensitive film film and replicate early film films.

The advantage of this solution is that it is less difficult to develop, as long as you prepare an excellent photosensitive development potion, find the appropriate film material for light transmittance and material toughness, and create a motion picture film. Continuing to develop supporting equipment around motion picture film will soon enable recording, storage, and projection functions.

Yao En has technical reserves in optical lenses, and the "Yao En Technology Goggles" he wears on his head are the pinnacle of Feilun Continent's optical lens technology.

Soon experimental film was also born, and the silver halide emulsion photosensitive agent was not an incomprehensible black technology for Faeron alchemy.

The film is made of shapeshifter skin, which is kneaded after leaving the shapeshifter's body, and after drying, it becomes a strip of leather with high transparency and flexibility, which is ideal for use as a substrate for motion picture films.

That's right, the poor family of shapeshifters now sells meat during the day and meat at night, and after a day of exhausting and desperate performances every night, they will be tied to the iron frame screaming and being cut by Luo Feng with a small sickle.

Anyway, the new skin can grow soon after the treatment is performed, and it will not even affect the next day's performance.

Endless, endless, extremely low cost, what a suitable source of film raw materials.

Fei Lun hadn't invented the anesthetic yet, and there was a little pain in the peeling process, and Luo Feng thought that they would overcome this pain by gritting their teeth, so they didn't bother to spend time developing anesthetics and doing any painless peeling technology.

It's just that the yield is a bit low, and the skin of the three-headed shapeshifter is not enough for ten minutes of film.

Film film cameras and projectors were quickly trial-produced, and after recording a stage play of "Titanic", Luo Feng's team conducted a trial.

The results are not very satisfactory, the film is black and white, it is much more difficult to develop color film than black and white film, and Yao En has not yet found a suitable alchemical potion to make color developer.

Noise and scratches aside, the picture quality and clarity are the same as those of the earliest films, and you can only see a shadow, and the faces of the characters in the play are not real.

Moreover, because the recording technology has not yet been developed, this video is a silent film.

This experimental film can't even restore one-ten-thousandth of the live performance effect of the stage play, even if the people of Feilun are extremely lacking in entertainment, watching this kind of low-quality film is just watching a fresh, and after the freshness is over, they probably won't be willing to watch it a second time.

Continued research and development, in the short term, there is limited room for image quality improvement, and if Yao En is given another three or five years, it will at most reach the level of black-and-white films in the thirties in the real world.

If it has been developed for a few years, it will be able to keep up with the footsteps of the real world and make high-quality color films in the 80s and 90s.

But Luo Feng's team didn't have that much time to waste.

There is another problem with film films, that is, there is no encryption technology, one cannot prevent piracy, and the other cannot prevent copycats.

Once the Bredrow Theatre Company's film films hit the market, and others saw that the trade was profitable, low-quality copycats and pirated films would surely spring up.

Pirated movies can still be tolerated, Luo Feng's team doesn't care about money, and piracy is also helpful for expanding influence and prestige.

If there are too many copycat movies, it will seriously hit Luo Feng's team's plan.

Bad money drives out good money, and 10,000 copycat movies copied by other theater companies at low prices and low quality have flooded the market, and who knows which onion Bredero troupe is at that time?

Even if the troupe wants to issue an announcement to criticize copycat plagiarism, it must have public information platforms such as the Internet and newspapers and magazines in the Faeron Continent.

With the speed of information flow at the bottom of Ferron, perhaps in a dozen years, the inventor of the film will have nothing to do with the Bredrow Theater Company, and will be replaced by one of the most successful pirates or copycat giants.

Yao En proposed a way to install an acid trap bomb, and if he dismantled the projector without permission, he would wait to be slapped with acid.

This method was immediately rejected, and there were countless high-level thieves in the Faren Continent, and it was pointless to dismantle an acid trap like probing for something, and it was pointless to pretend to be a trap or not.

In addition, copycat film technology does not need to disassemble the prototype for reverse engineering, as long as the basic principles are clarified, the alchemist is asked to develop the silver halide photosensitive latex on the film, and there are no technical barriers to the lens group and basic structure, and it can be studied casually.

This plan did not pass the feasibility assessment and was rejected by Luo Feng's team.

The second R&D program is on the table.

This scheme is exactly what Yao En mentioned before, using the illusion magic crystal as the information carrier, and storing audio and video information in the crystal.

There is already a similar illusion recording magic crystal in the Faren Continent, and it is this magic crystal that Lucit used when he secretly recorded the evidence of the Bredero gang's crimes.

But the technology of the Phantasmagoric Shard is not yet mature.

A magic crystal can only be recorded once, and after playing it two or three times, it will become invalid due to the loss of the magic power contained in it, and it will become an ordinary stone.

Second, the audio restoration degree recorded by the magic crystal is okay, but the video resolution is not as good as the black and white film movie, the characters and scenes are all blurred, and it looks like a blurry shadow.

The focus of scientific research is on these two aspects, one is to increase the number of records of the illusion crystal, and a magic crystal must be played at least ten times or even more than ten times. The second is to improve the clarity of the video recorded by the magic crystal, and at least reach the level of the videotapes of the eighties and nineties.

The disadvantage of using the illusion crystal is that the price of this magic raw material is very high, and the materials related to magic are scarce, fortunately, the city of Ascatra where the team is located is a maritime trade center, as long as the order is placed on the bulletin board of the Chamber of Commerce in the port area to purchase the illusion crystal in large quantities, there will naturally be merchants who will travel thousands of miles to transport it from the production area.

And its advantages are also obvious, that is, it can be encrypted with an arcane lock, after encryption, unless the password is known, even if the legendary arcanist forcibly decrypts it with his strength, the result is likely to be an explosion of magic crystals, and all the information inside is annihilated.

This puts an end to the problem of piracy.

The technical difficulty of the magic crystal video recorder focuses on the lens group of the video acquisition, the transcoder to the lossless compression of the video encryption information, the analysis chip will restore the compressed video, etc., which contains a lot of real-world microelectronic technology, Ai Ou has found the "integrated circuit" to change the design into the "integrated magic road" etching technology.

This technology is too "technological" for the mages of Faerun, and the mages want to master it unless they delve into dwarf technology for decades, and for the gnome technicians of Feren, it is too "magical" to master unless the part-time mage level reaches level 10 or above.

If you want to figure out the principle and come out of it, you can't help copycat giants and pirate dealers hire a very unique cross-disciplinary talent like Yao En.

But Yao En has only one.

Even if they could hire Yao En's twin brother, they would be helpless without Io's guidance.

After the plan was decided, Yao En began to experiment with the illusion crystal, and the research and development progress bar began to roll slowly.

The shapeshifters who learned the news through mind-reading celebrated, hugged each other and cried for a long time, crying with joy.

It's so hard for monsters, and they have to peel their skins every day, even monsters can't stand it!

The Five Wine Pot Theater continues to hold three performances a day to attract money, the "Bredero and Friends Culture and Technology Development Co., Ltd." Chamber of Commerce is also officially registered in the city hall, and the development of the Phantom Crystal camera is slowly advancing, as if everything is on track and the plan is going smoothly.

However, the crisis is hidden beneath the tranquil surface of the sea like an iceberg hit by the Titanic.

Late one night, a loud bang erupted from the theater, and the flames and smoke of the explosion erupted from the theater, and the dull loud noise echoed through the cold streets of the Bridge District!

Something happened!