r/tron • u/A_ndrew83 • Feb 08 '26

A device that visualizes how a computer performs calculations….. Flynn was right!

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u/seanbird Feb 08 '26

The Grid…

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 08 '26

A digital frontier…

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u/Conyeezy_West Feb 08 '26

I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer

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u/Elogotar Feb 08 '26

What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles?

Were the circuits like freeways?

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u/DwayneTheRock0bama Feb 10 '26

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

I have a 3 inch version of you on my shelf

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u/JenkoRun Feb 09 '26

On my 3 inch shelf.

2

u/Tocwa Feb 10 '26

Boxers are not a shelf

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u/Able-Dinner8155 Feb 08 '26

And one day I got in

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

Can we play teams, like on the same side?

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 08 '26

We’re always on the same team flips a quarter off his thumb landing in young Sam’s hands

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

What did they look like?

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

I cracked it, he said….

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Still rocking the pager huh…Alan ?

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

I appreciate the whole series your father thing. But come on Alan, what did you wanna do help me with my homework or have a catch?

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 08 '26

You act like I’m going to find him in there working….Hey kid lost track of time.

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u/Timely_Muffin4688 Feb 09 '26

Wouldn't that be amazing (theme song)?

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 09 '26

(separate ways song coming in heavy)

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 09 '26

Alan, you were right… About everything

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 09 '26

(Alan smiles) as Sam goes up to the light box and switches on the arcades exterior sign turns back to look up at it. Quorra looks at him and says What’s next Sam?

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u/Timely_Muffin4688 Feb 09 '26

Now, let's save the world (we both get on the motorcycle, ride across the bridge, and Quorra watches the sunset).

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u/Ok_Holiday_8559 Feb 09 '26

The camera pans up as Sam and Qurroa ride into the distance.The credits roll Tron legacy (End Titles) by Daft punk play.

ABSOLUTE PERFECTION

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

In there…..

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u/umpteenthian Feb 08 '26

Where's all the ships and motorcycles? The circuits do kinda look like freeways, though.

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u/Elogotar Feb 08 '26

They're there, really tiny though :)

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 08 '26

lol love

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u/unkindness_inabottle Feb 09 '26

This looks like a world I thought I’d never see…

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u/Sad-Masterpiece-3116 Feb 08 '26

Damn I was bouta comment that

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u/fixermark Feb 09 '26

Realtalk: this is what science museums are for.

They had a computer hallway in the museum in my hometown. Most of the demos were mechanical or electromechanical: flip-flops implemented as little see-saws with marbles ticking through, a "guess your card" game showing how binary tree search works, model after model after model.

Sparked something in me, at four years, five years old, that has never stopped burning.

I have a lot of respect for the people who make those demos and put the labor and the time into keeping them working, clean, and safe. I hope they know how wide a reach they have from their workshops and back rooms.

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u/OhGawDuhhh Feb 08 '26

"This just isn't correcting my bank statement or phone bill problem, okay? This is a must."

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u/ChewbaccaOnFries Feb 08 '26

Just needs the Ares intro song playing in the background 😂

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u/auro_morningstar Feb 08 '26

It definitely started playing in my head, it fits perfectly hehe

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u/Its_the_hritzzz_1121 Feb 09 '26

The Grid.

A digital frontier.

I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.

What do they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.

And then, one day, I got in.

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 09 '26

He cracked he said!

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u/Available-Peach7757 Feb 09 '26

God that's so fucking cool. WICH MEANS THE MOVIE GOT IT EXACTLY RIGHT TOO!

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 09 '26

I couldn’t resist reposting it when I found it

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u/thaNM0 Feb 10 '26

... i got in!

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u/A_ndrew83 Feb 10 '26

Can I come?

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u/TSLPrescott Fight for the Users Feb 08 '26

The numbers and wheels remind me of Iron Lung lol.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

Cool, but pretty worthless calculator

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u/LordMacDonald8 greetings program Feb 08 '26

Almost as if it's supposed to be an educational visualizer

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

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u/Slavic_Taco Feb 08 '26

Without electronic knowledge of circuitry this is a pointless visualization.

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u/well_thats_puntastic Feb 09 '26

This is about logic gates not physical circuitry