Rube Goldberg Code

[tst]

The scaled version does have some beauty to it, though.

[PaulG.]

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@tst wrote:

The scaled version does have some beauty to it, though.

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It looks like algae. 

[Hooovahh]

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@AnthonyDeVries wrote:

I always wonder.... didn't the person who created this ever think:  "There has to be a better way to do this!?" 

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People who spend days, literally days, doing nothing but code one VI like this must think LabVIEW is the most terrible language to ever.  They probably don't see it as a language and just think of it as Auto-CAD with some functions.  Still I am so glad examples like these exist.

[JÞB]

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@AnthonyDeVries wrote:

I always wonder.... didn't the person who created this ever think: 

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??? my thought exactly

[altenbach]

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@PaulG. wrote:

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@tst wrote:

The scaled version does have some beauty to it, though.

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It looks like algae. 

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It reminds me of the Matrix.

[sebster]

Well, after reading all of these comments, I just had to see the vi for myself from the original post. If you haven't done so yet, I can recomment doing it.

And as Altenbach says - "Wow! Just wow!"     It was hurting my eyes.

Surprising that it does actually function (well, kind of - the stop button obviously takes a little while to respond)

[Hooovahh]

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altenbach wrote:

It reminds me of the Matrix.

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...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix Sequence.VI.  You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde Local Variable, brunette Sequence, redhead Delay.

[crossrulz]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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altenbach wrote:

It reminds me of the Matrix.

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...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix Sequence.VI.  You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde Local Variable, brunette Sequence, redhead Delay.

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We joke, but that has happened to me with PCM data I was debugging and more recently with serial data being streamed in.  Makes the cutomer look at you funny when you highlight a value and say "Your torque is too low".

[tst]

Sorry, Jim, I'm not nasty enough to give you kudos, but you do get an honorable mention:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Can-someone-create-a-program-for-me-to-calclate-resistane-using/m-p/...

[jcarmody]

Is the rest of my participation in these fora of such poor quality that the intent behind this snippet wasn't obvious? 😞

My purpose was served, however, in that I did get credited for the solution.  I came clean at the end, here.