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A '''Block Transfer Computation''' was a mathematical process used to create objects and affect spacetime in other ways through the power of pure mathematics. The process usually involved chanting. | A '''Block Transfer Computation''' was a [[Mathematics|mathematical]] process used to create objects and affect [[spacetime]] in other ways through the power of pure mathematics. The process usually involved chanting. | ||
== Functioning == | == Functioning == | ||
Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or spacetime event, provided enough mathematical information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') Artificial | Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or [[spacetime]] event, provided enough [[Mathematics|mathematical]] information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') [[Artificial intelligence]]s could be made as well. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of twelve people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'') | ||
[[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer. Though they were working on technological means to do so, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. As such, organic life forms had to do the work as morphologically unstable living organic matter could handle the stress of reality-changes caused by block transfer mathematics. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud for this reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') but there were few others. The correct organic material could be found with [[Gallifrey]], [[Axos]], and possibly even [[Nestene]] matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') | [[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations, as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer. Though they were working on technological means to do so, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. As such, organic life forms had to do the work as morphologically unstable living organic matter could handle the stress of reality-changes caused by block transfer mathematics. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud for this reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') but there were few others. The correct organic material could be found with [[Gallifrey]], [[Axos]], and possibly even [[Nestene]] matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') | ||
== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
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The [[Unthinkable City]] was created by Mr [[Qixotl]] using Block Transfer Computation and [[matter augmenter]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | The [[Unthinkable City]] was created by Mr [[Qixotl]] using Block Transfer Computation and [[matter augmenter]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | ||
[[Zhe Ikiyuyu]] used Block Transfer Computation to create art form known as [[block transfer sculpture]]. Zhe was the only one who managed to provide an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] persona for a block transfer sculpture when they created the [[binary apprentice]] using an organic matrix called the [[quantum sphere]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arts in Space (comic story)|The Arts in Space]]'') | [[Zhe Ikiyuyu]] used Block Transfer Computation to create [[art]] form known as [[block transfer sculpture]]. Zhe was the only one who managed to provide an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] persona for a block transfer sculpture when they created the [[binary apprentice]] using an organic matrix called the [[quantum sphere]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arts in Space (comic story)|The Arts in Space]]'') | ||
[[pt:Cálculo de Transferência em Bloco]] | [[pt:Cálculo de Transferência em Bloco]] | ||
