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Why’s it look like that? It’s cool, but creepy at the same time.

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Fluidic logic is very, very cool. It’s basically a low-bit computer, but using transmission fluid instead of electricity

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This is indeed insanely cool, there’s an animation of an oscillator there that is remarkable. And there’s no moving parts

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Yeah, shit’s wild. The transmissions here aren’t true fluidic computers, because they still have solenoid valves controlled by an external computer, but anything with that much plumbing is basically magic

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6 points

well damn. That reminds me of the classic two BJT oscillator but it’s just fluids

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16 points

Mechanical (?) computers sound very cool. So it like directs flow in a way that resembles binary?

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There’s still actual solenoid valves controlling the flow (acting as the logic gates), the voids you see in these transmissions are the paths the fluid takes, same as traces on a circuit board or chip.

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