Rube Goldberg Code

[Neos]

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-to-sort-an-array-in-Even-and-odd-parts/td-p/2595717

Says - there are thousands of ways to do it.

           He did it rubes way

using locals is not crime -  yeah i have heard it

[altenbach]

Well, at least if fits comfortably on a 640x480 screen. (and that's all we had back in the days!) 😄

 

(seen here)

[KoenR94]

Found this rube goldberg topic.

Most of you may have seen this gem.

It can be found here

[altenbach]

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@KoenR94 wrote:

Found this rube goldberg topic.

Most of you may have seen this gem.

It can be found here

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Curiously, the discussion is titled "how to increase the memory of VI".

While most people try to reduce the memory footprint of a VI, this example seems to already do exactly the opposite, i.e. what he wants. 😄 So where is the problem?

[jcarmody]

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@KoenR94 wrote:

Found this rube goldberg topic.

Most of you may have seen this gem.

It can be found here

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It looks like it was generated with scripting by placing & wiring random nodes, although the Run arrow isn't broken.  It makes want to write a LabVIEW fractal generator...

[altenbach]

interesting way to change the filename part of a long path (seen here).

 

(There is a path-to-string implied as first operation)

One better way (NeilR):

[crossrulz]

Found here:http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Moving-live-data-from-inside-for-loop/m-p/2721769#U2721769

Build an array from 1 item and index it out.  We've seen that a million times.  What caught my funny bone is the fact that they are using a Quotient & Remainder to divide the FOR loop iteration count by 1 and taking the remainder.  So much work just to put a value in a chart.

[altenbach]

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crossrulz wrote: So much work just to put a value in a chart.

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It is probably the classic:

"Hey I don't know LabVIEW but after trying random things seen elsewhere, this works, so I won't touch it and possible mess it up again" 😄

[altenbach]

Adding a few sine waves apparently needs code the height of the empire state building (seen here).

Here's the navigation window (the white area is a typical screen size!)

 

[altenbach]

Two Index arrays, two subtractions, two squaring, addition, square root, etc. to get a distance between two point in 2D. (seen here).

Complex math IS simpler! 😄