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skOre ·
I really don't know why I had this idea, since I really like how SM is handling wires, but here is it anyways:
How about a mode, in which SM wires being organized by the Program itself, under the following rules:
1-Only possible angles: 0°, 45°, 90° and so on
2-Never have two wires of the same angle lying above each other
3-Offending wires of rule number 2 will be automatically cleaned up besides each other
Illustration:
Caught me before going to sleep last night. Will probably do my wirings like this from now on. Mode two is what I call the "even sexier wiring" btw. Also btw: a computer would probably place those vertical lines on the exact half of the way between the ins/outs.
edit: Had the mouse blurryness again while trying to sort these wires. a bump for the mouse getting exacter when zooming in!
Nu Audio Science ·
V1 is how Shif does his wires 😉
I'm so lazy they end up where they are 🙂
Shifrin ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: V1 is how Shif does his wires 😉
I'm so lazy they end up where they are 🙂
I like them neat, doesn't matter if they overlap for me personally though. Nice idea, not sure how it'd look with a dozen or more modules thrown into the mix though!
Shif.
skOre ·
So it might be nice to have a "sort wires"-button maybe?
grease ·
Hmmm...it's kind of interesting to think of the algorithm required for this type of "clean up." I imagine that there could be situations where the wires would be sorted, reevaluated to see if they now satisfy the rules, then finding that they don't, they get sorted again, etc., and and endless loop would result. I guess you could make it stop after a certain number of iterations to avoid this. But it sounds like one of those easy-to-state, hard-to-solve kinds of problems...
grease ·
Sorry...just having fun with the idea here...
With this method, you would run into problems with several wires attched to a single connector. For example, if you insist that wires only attach to an output module as a horizontal line, then you couldn't have more than one wire connected to that output without lines overlapping at least for a small distance. Or, if you allow connections at increments of 45 degrees, and you don't want any "backwards" connections, then you could get only five wires connected maximum. OK...I'm thinking about this WAY too much....see what you did?
skOre ·
"Beautiful/ I just want you to know to know/ You're my favorite girl"
Sure, wires coming from or going to the same plug would have to overlap. Maybe we need the restrictions of electronic schematics?
skOre ·
"You know theres something about you"
malc ·
Are you ok skOre, maybe you need a rest? 😉
skOre ·
Pah! Humburg! The skore won't need nothing of your rest!
maybe I slept too much the past few days...
just kidding
grease ·
skOre wrote: "You know theres something about you"
Is that a Level 42 quote? I love that song!
Yeah skOre, maybe you do need some rest...but I'm enjoying your wire art...
(I think I'll forget about wire sorting algorithms for now...I think I need some rest too.)
skOre ·
Heh, no, it was actually a continued quote from the post above, from the Snoop Dogg Song...
But I will check out that Level 42 stuff 😉
edit: after checking out a little... guess I'm a tad too young for knowing these, right? 😉
grease ·
skOre wrote: Heh, no, it was actually a continued quote from the post above, from the Snoop Dogg Song...
But I will check out that Level 42 stuff 😉
edit: after checking out a little... guess I'm a tad too young for knowing these, right? 😉
Probably...You have to be about 34 to remember that song from your youth...and have it bring back memories of being a teenager...
(By the way, the song in question is titled "Something About You," if I'm not mistaken. Catchy tune.)
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