Chapter 6 Spell Modeling
The five solids, namely the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, are called regular polyhedrons, also known as Platonic solids. They are solids whose faces are composed of only one type of regular polygon.
In the world of mathematics, there are many ways to prove that there are only five Platonic solids in the world, and the icosahedron is the regular polyhedron with the most faces.
The tetrahedron has four vertices, the hexahedron has eight vertices, the octahedron has six vertices, the dodecahedron has twenty vertices, and the icosahedron has only twelve vertices.
When he was in the giant tower world, Fang Yu had already concluded that the reason he traveled to the giant tower world was definitely because of this magic cube.
After Fang Yu returned from the Giant Tower World early yesterday morning, he did not find the missing Rubik's Cube at Wang Xiaoya's house.
And now, this Rubik's Cube actually appeared in the sea of consciousness!
Could it be that this thing is in my brain? Will it cause a brain tumor if I keep doing this for a long time?
Fang Yu closed his eyes and licked his lips.
Although his mind was still immersed in the sea of consciousness, his body would still follow the reaction of his mind. Fang Yu could feel the thumping of his heart beating violently.
Observing the Rubik's Cube floating in the sea of consciousness, Fang Yu muttered to himself: "What on earth are you? Was the voice that appeared in my mind yesterday made by you?"
The Rubik's Cube didn't respond at all.
Fang Yu tried to touch the Rubik's Cube with his consciousness again, but the Rubik's Cube did not change at all.
Oh, right, I still have one step left to do, which is to communicate with the magic network.
But I just outlined one node, and now all the nodes have become vertices of the Rubik's Cube. Is the node synchronization completed?
Following the basic meditation method, Fang Yu began to use his consciousness to touch each vertex of the Rubik's Cube one by one in a certain order.
After touching it three times, the symbols on every face of the Rubik's Cube lit up, illuminating the entire sea of consciousness.
Is this the magic net?
Fang Yu closed his eyes, but he could feel countless nodes around him flickering like breathing.
These nodes cannot be described in words, let alone observed. Whenever Fang Yu tried to observe a node with his consciousness, the node disappeared, as if it had never existed in the first place.
Similarly, in a space where nodes originally seemed to have no existence, nodes appeared when Fang Yu confirmed this concept.
Does the observation of consciousness affect the existence of magic network nodes?
interesting.
Just as Fang Yu was wondering whether the magic net was also a part of quantum mechanics, the Rubik's Cube quietly floating in the sea of consciousness began to spin rapidly.
Wow, what's going on!?
As the Rubik's Cube rotated, a vortex soon appeared in Fang Yu's sea of consciousness.
The Rubik's Cube spun faster and faster, and the vortex spun more and more violently. Fang Yu, immersed in the sea of consciousness, even felt that his body was bound by countless invisible threads.
These threads were connected to the magic net nodes around him, and streams of golden energy gushed out from the magic net nodes and flowed into Fang Yu's sea of consciousness along the invisible threads.
With the infusion of golden energy, the twitching pain in Fang Yu's brain disappeared without a trace, just like a long-dry forest encountering sweet rain, every brain cell cheered with joy.
Fang Yu's sea of consciousness was surging violently.
Soon, the entire sea of consciousness was dyed with a layer of golden light by golden energy. When the sea of consciousness was filled with golden energy, Fang Yu's body shook and he involuntarily came out of the meditative state.
Is it over?
Fang Yu opened his eyes and felt the energy of the magic net jumping and surging around him and the nodes that appeared and disappeared.
Fang Yu stretched out his index finger, and with a thought, a bean-sized light spot appeared at his fingertip.
Success?
Looking at the faint light on his fingertips, Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned.
It has been repeatedly mentioned in the Introduction to the Magic Network and the Basic Meditation Method that communicating with the Magic Network is a long process.
Even if you successfully enter a meditative state, you will not be able to communicate with the magic network stably and draw magic power from it immediately.
From communicating with the magic network to drawing magic power from the magic network, it takes three to six years of meditation practice and continuous learning of various node models during this period.
Most beginners need the help of external props such as meditation guides to initially master the operation of magic and enter the real arcane apprenticeship stage.
As for those who have been meditating for six years but still cannot establish initial communication with the magic network, it means that they are not cut out for it and can only do menial work.
And now, it is obvious that he has completed the step of communicating with the magic network and has initially mastered the operation of magic power.
The most direct proof is that one can feel the nodes of the magic network and have a preliminary grasp of magic power even in a non-meditative state.
I completed the journey that others would take at least three years to complete in just one night. Was it the effect of the Rubik's Cube, or am I really a genius?
I guess it’s both, otherwise why didn’t anyone else find the Rubik’s Cube?
Well, I have to ask Sister Xiaoya where she got this Rubik's Cube.
Now that I have completed the initial control of the magic network, can I practice the book "0-Ring Tricks: From Beginner to Expert"?
After reading "Introduction to Magic Web" and "Basic Meditation Method", Fang Yu has gained some basic knowledge about magic.
After completing the arcane apprenticeship stage of communicating with the magic network to absorb magic power, you can begin to practice the most basic spells.
As introduced in the Introduction to the Magic Network, spells have 10 levels from 0 to 9, with 0 being the lowest and 9 being the highest.
There seem to be spells above the 9th level, but those are not covered in this kind of popular science textbook.
Many arcane mages believe that 0-level spells do not require the mobilization of magic network nodes and can be cast based solely on the caster's own accumulated magic power and mental strength. These are just tricks used to familiarize oneself with spellcasting and cannot be called arcane.
For this reason, most arcane mages refer to 0th-level spells as cantrips.
Fang Yu tiptoed out of bed and wanted to take out the book "0-Ring Magic" from the cabinet under the desk, but saw a few rays of morning sunlight shining through the thin blue synthetic curtains, shining on the light yellow tile floor in front of the window, reflecting a soft and hazy light spot.
It turns out that I didn’t sleep all night again.
According to the book, basic meditation cannot completely replace sleep.
Apprentices who have mastered meditation should ensure at least two hours of sleep every day, but Fang Yu did not feel mentally exhausted after not sleeping all night.
Luo Ziming, who was sleeping by the window, turned over and mumbled a few words in his sleep. Fang Yu pondered for a moment, took out the book from under the desk, and climbed back into bed.
The dormitory is still too inconvenient. Lying on the bed, Fang Yu sighed.
It seems that I still have to go out and rent a house. After all, I am a person with secrets now. Fang Yu thought secretly in his heart and opened the thickest book "0 Ring Magic: From Beginner to Expertise" in his hand.
From these books, we can see that in addition to the 0-9 level grading of spells in the Tower World, there are also different classifications of spell properties.
Evocation, animacy, prophecy, transmutation, spells, enchantment.
According to the nature of the spells, the Tower World divides spells into these six different schools, and each school is further divided into several or dozens of sub-schools.
Which one should I learn first?
Acid splash? No, no, that's like throwing sulfuric acid. Getting caught with it is a death sentence.
Elemental control spells like Wind Dance, Earth Shape, Water Shape, Frost Bite, and Fire Control? They don't seem to be very useful...
Light magic? This thing doesn't seem as convenient as a flashlight.
Magical energy explosion?
A beam of intense energy shoots towards a creature within 40 meters of the casting distance, launching a long-range spell attack on the target, causing fatal damage to ordinary creatures including humans.
This looks really cool. I wish I could have learned this spell in high school.
Fang Yu imagined himself in high school, crossing his arms and shouting, "Zai Pelion Rays!"
Then a ray of light knocked down all the bullies in the class, grade and school.
It makes me feel so good just thinking about it.
Eh? Aren't there supposedly some kind of bully in every class and school? Why doesn't my middle school or high school have one?
Maybe the school is too good.
Fang Yu smacked his lips regretfully.
The book teaches a total of 36 0-level tricks from six schools. Fang Yu finally decided to follow the advice in the book and first practice the basic spell of the School of Transformation - Arcane Tricks.
The School of Change is about changing the nature or state of things through arcane magic. This school believes that change is the fundamental law of the universe, and all existence is seeking balance in constant flow and transformation.
As the basic spell of the School of Transmutation, the Arcane Trick only involves the most basic "transformation", so in terms of effect, it is indeed more like a magic trick.
The effect of this spell is not unique, but rather some "changes" made to things within certain arcane effect limitations. The specific effect of the spell depends only on what kind of changes the caster wants.
For example, you can use arcane tricks to make a piece of music appear inexplicably in someone's ears, or make a cold inanimate object warm or a warm inanimate object cold, or even create a breeze...
In short, magic tricks are just tricks. They cannot cause serious harm to the caster, but are just a slight "change" to the state of the object.
Fang Yu took the stylus and began to write and draw on the pad, trying to analyze the spell model of the arcane trick.
There are three main steps to learning spells:
1. Analyze the spell model;
2. Construct a spell model;
3. Solidify the spell model.
Every spell has its own spell model, and arcane tricks are no exception.
Spell models cannot be directly displayed using text or diagrams, so what is taught in spell books is how to obtain spell models by analyzing spells.
Then construct the spell model in the sea of consciousness, and finally, solidify the constructed spell model on the mapping node of the sea of consciousness.
The difference between a 0-level cantrip and a formal spell is that the cantrip does not require the mobilization of magic network nodes.
Therefore, tricks don't need to be fixed on a mapping node. After constructing the spell model, you can inject the accumulated mana into the model and cast it at any time.
However, isn't this spell analysis too difficult?
Fang Yu felt as if he was back in high school, working on the last question of a science math test paper, and this test paper was written by Wuzhou Ge Jun.
Even with Fang Yu's IQ of 140 in science and mathematics in the college entrance examination, he was still a little confused when he first started to analyze spell models.
"No wonder the book can't just give a model. This is too perverted. Why are there individual parameters and environmental parameters? Doesn't that mean that for the same spell, everyone's spell model will be different?"
"That won't work. There's interference between the running lines. There's a threefold energy pressure difference between Line A and Line B... This is okay... Uh, this also needs to be considered in light of environmental parameters..."
Looking at the messy lines drawn on the pad, Fang Yu frowned. It had been almost an hour.
If today wasn't Sunday and the few people in the dormitory were night owls, it would have been time to go to class, but Fang Yu still had no idea.
After a long pause, Fang Yu slapped his forehead and said, "Am I stupid? Using Rhino and Python."
Fang Yu got out of bed and turned on the computer.
A spell model is also a model. Since it is a model, computer modeling is always much more efficient than human brain modeling, right?
Life is short, use Python.
When Fang Yu was in high school, he wanted to make animations. He taught himself Rhino for a while. His level was not very high, but he had no problem with general use.
As for Python, there was a 3-credit elective course in the first semester of freshman year, and Fang Yu did quite well in it.
Python has a ready-made Rhino library. By inputting the parameters converted by Fang Yu, it can automatically render the spell model that Fang Yu needs.
Fang Yu quickly set the parameters and clicked render. A few minutes later, a polyhedron model that kept stretching and changing its shape was rendered.
"Yes!" Fang Yu waved his fist vigorously. "I see. I was wondering why I couldn't figure it out. The model isn't static, it's dynamic!"
Now, all we have to do is construct the spell model of the arcane trick in the Sea of Consciousness!
(End of this chapter)
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