[Game Update] - 265438

[Kabrute]

well there goes free ranging mid game :/

[TheScaryOne]

Or ranching. I mean, I'm sure by cycle 50 or 60 most of your wild critters will be dead.

I've never stopped running vacuum insulated base walls, but this is going to make everything else suck, like my water sieve.

[Risu]

3 minutes ago, Nemez said:

10 cycle

It looks like none of the heat is moving through the borders, just the edges interacting with nearby cells.
Funny enough it's the high heat capacity of abyssalite that is the problem with this. They really want to soak up all the nearby heat.
 

[Kasuha]

I'm pretty sure that the best, "most correct" way of "averaging" two heat transfer coefficients c1 and c2 for ONI purposes is:

c(average) = 1/(1/c1 + 1/c2) = c1*c2/(c1 + c2)

Edit: I was wrong by factor of two - it should probably be standard harmonic mean. See my later post:

 

Edited April 25, 2018 by Kasuha

[Nemez]

6 minutes ago, Risu said:

They really want to soak up all the nearby heat.

for me, abyssalite disseminates stored heat / cold

[Xedlord]

1 hour ago, watermelen671 said:

What does this even mean?

...Does this mean I have to update my neat little critter sheet? I JUST FINISHED THAT!!! 

It mean's that, for example: If a hatch lays a stone hatch egg, it should now look like a stone hatch egg instead of a hatch egg, and vice versa.

And no, you don't have too update the sheet.

[ThyReaper]

52 minutes ago, onebit said:

Average of 0 and 1.

Arithmetic: (0 + 1) / 2 = .5

Geometric: [(0+1) x (1 + 1)]^(1/2) - 1 = .41

Not much difference and higher computational cost.

@Nemez Double every wall.

The geometric mean is the square root of the product, so 0 and 1 would have a geometric average of 0. Abyssalite and anything else would be roughly sqrt(1e-5 * 1) or 0.003.

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

2 hours ago, Cheerio said:

average conductivity

thats greeeeeeeat!

[neoazureus]

20 minutes ago, Kasuha said:

I'm pretty sure that the best, "most correct" way of "averaging" two heat transfer coefficients c1 and c2 for ONI purposes is:

c(average) = 1/(1/c1 + 1/c2) = c1*c2/(c1 + c2)

Fourier's law for two bodies in contact (area = 1 = 1*1) ?

[regault]

31 minutes ago, Kasuha said:

I'm pretty sure that the best, "most correct" way of "averaging" two heat transfer coefficients c1 and c2 for ONI purposes is:

c(average) = 1/(1/c1 + 1/c2) = c1*c2/(c1 + c2)

This really is the best way to handle it. Since there's no square roots involved it should be mathematically simple for the game to calculate.

Technically the formula to determine the heat transfer through a pipe from the liquid to the surround atmosphere is U = 1/[(1/h1)+(dw/k)+(1/h2)] Where h1 and h2 are the heat transfer coefficients of the fluids, k is the conductivity of the pipe, and dw is the pipe's thickness.

[onebit]

How does that formula compare to the old pipes formula, e.g. granite pipe with oil inside in oxygen atmosphere.

Edited April 24, 2018 by onebit

[Kabrute]

I found a bug, or didn't find, um, well, I posted a bug report already but I thought it would be fun to share it here too.

I was playing when I noticed light wandering around randomly like. o.o

[Lutzkhie]

invisilbe shinebug? nooooo! cosmic radiation strikes again

[Kabrute]

badump tish

[Lifegrow]

1 hour ago, Saturnus said:

Well, at least it was mentioned in the update notes. A very effective way to heat death the entire map quite fast I must say.

Guess we'll go back to the vacuum separated outer walled dwarven fortresses we made a year ago before abyssalite was a thing you could build stuff from. We have come full circle it seems.

Fortunately, Borg Cubes still work so we'll have to rely on those a lot more than before to have any chance of making a sustainable base, I guess.

"Fortunately" my arse...

What an incredibly silly change. So once a piece of the asteroid is revealed, it begins to average out in temperature. Genius....

Looking forward to the incoming reverts for final release.

[Lilalaunekuh]

Just reroll the normal thermal energy transfer for insulated items

Would make them usefull even with abysalite, but wouldn´t make every heat transfering build much bigger for the 2. walls^^

[Nemez]

cycle 11- cycle44    stabilization

[Mr.Tarunio]

13 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

badump tish

naming hatches when XD

[fihgu]

4 hours ago, Alpe12 said:

Major change there.
Good bye overpowered Abyssalite.

Build two layers of it, problem solved.

[QuantumPion]

This averaging of heat coefficients does not make any sense physically or gameplay wise! Thermal conductivity is mathematically the same as electrical resistance. If you have a 1 ohm resistor in series with a 1,000,000 ohm resistor, you do not use the arithmetic average of 500,000! The resistance should be the sum of both!

Edited April 25, 2018 by QuantumPion

[regault]

Actually the problem with using the standard equation for thermal resistance is that then materials wind up with much lower conductivity than normal. For instance a block of copper conducting heat to a block of copper would do so at 30 W/k rather than 60.

The more I look into it, the more I think the geometric mean will create values that "feel" right to people.

Of course, given that square roots are a bit more processor heavy than you'd want for something that is calculated for thousands of blocks a tick, it might be best to create a lookup table of material interface conductances.

[pnambic]

19 minutes ago, regault said:

The more I look into it, the more I think the geometric mean will create values that "feel" right to people.

Of course, given that square roots are a bit more processor heavy than you'd want for something that is calculated for thousands of blocks a tick, it might be best to create a lookup table of material interface conductances.

This, exactly. I've played around with the numbers for a bit (see below). The original (minimum) formula breaks radiance (assuming that it's implemented as a constant factor, analogous to insulation before). The arithmetic mean kills insulation between solids. Kasuha's proposal causes self-conductance issues as you noted, but even if you "fix" those (say, by doubling the result), naive radiance still doesn't do what one would expect. The geometric mean looks much more reasonable.

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6 minutes ago, pnambic said:

This, exactly. I've played around with the numbers for a bit (see below). The original (minimum) formula breaks radiance (assuming that it's implemented as a constant factor, analogous to insulation before). The arithmetic mean kills insulation between solids. Kasuha's proposal causes self-conductance issues as you noted, but even if you "fix" those (say, by doubling the result), naive radiance still doesn't do what one would expect. The geometric mean looks much more reasonable.

Factors: Insulated 0.03125(1/32), radiant 32

[pnambic]

Just now, R9MX4 said:

Factors: Insulated 0.03125(1/32), radiant 32

Serves me right for trusting that Wiki. Thanks! The radiance factor is insane.

[KittenIsAGeek]

50 minutes ago, QuantumPion said:

This averaging of heat coefficients does not make any sense physically or gameplay wise! Thermal conductivity is mathematically the same as electrical resistance. If you have a 1 ohm resistor in series with a 1,000,000 ohm resistor, you do not use the arithmetic average of 500,000! The resistance should be the sum of both!

Electrical engineer here.. Wouldn't thermal conductivity be more like resistors in parallel?  If that's the case, then I can see why heat is ignoring the insulators.  1/1 + 1/1000000 = 1.000001 = 1/R-total, so R-total would be 0.999999 -- Basically 1.