Chapter 123: Seizing the Day, My Friends

"Director, after conducting tests..." Peck was about to brief Murphy on the recent research on the intelligence-enhancing potion when Murphy raised his hand to interrupt him, "How many bottles of the intelligence-enhancing potion do you have here?"

He had worked on similar substances during his school days and knew what the effects were like, thus he did not listen to the report.

"Uh... We just received ten bottles last week, of which three, oh no, five were used for experiments, leaving us with five bottles."

"Good, bring them all to me."

After receiving the intelligence-enhancing potion, Murphy downed a bottle in one gulp, feeling a cool sensation flooding his brain, as if in an instant, his head doubled in size, capable of holding more content.

At the same time, the headache and drowsiness that had troubled him for days disappeared immediately.

"It works!" Murphy was very happy, "Omid, I think it's necessary for Peck to join your mind magic research group."

"Peck, from now on, you can share your research findings with Mr. Omid," Murphy said, patting him on the shoulder, "Keep it up, Peck, I look forward to the day when the effects of the intelligence-enhancing potion become permanent."

After leaving Omid behind, he prepared to leave.

Having acquired the intelligence-enhancing potion and temporarily resolved the aftermath of the total recall, he planned to return to the medical lab for another dose.

The Lion King was not considered a treasure; his mind actually contained many things that could play a much bigger role.

For instance, memories that could accelerate the design of chip IP cores.

As a coder, he remembered taking a course on assembly language for ARM's 64-bit instruction set.

Although it was just to understand some basic knowledge, he had sped through it and had almost forgotten everything.

But if he could remember everything, he could submit the design ideas of the assembly instructions to ARM's designers, allowing them to reverse-engineer the instruction set architecture and then the CPU functional circuit design.

Although it would still take a lot of time, solving problems with an answer in hand would definitely be much faster.

Moreover, for the part of system development, he also had some knowledge that could be useful. Although it wasn't enough to directly create a usable computer system by hand, accelerating the research and development pace should be feasible.

"Director," but before Murphy had walked far, a researcher caught up with him, "Director, I've discovered a use for the revealing potion..."

"The revealing potion?"

Murphy wasn't very interested, as it was just a potion that could make pictures move on their own, seeming to have a limited application scope. He hadn't paid attention to this area, "You can publish it in the institute's journal. Good luck..."

"Director..."

The researcher still followed him, "Director, the revealing potion can complete the scene changes before and after a photograph is taken. It can automatically generate information, this information..."

"Hmm..." Murphy listened, still thinking about extracting those memories, and casually said, "If you think of any application direction, you can go to Laura..."

The elevator had arrived, and Murphy entered, but out of respect for his researcher, he tried to listen to him out.

"I've found the application direction!"

"Director, the revealing potion can automatically interpolate frames for film!"

"It can specifically complete the scene. If two images are taken in succession, the revealing potion can naturally display the changes between the two images..."

"This can, Director..."

The elevator doors closed, but Murphy pressed the open door button at the last moment.

"Wait, say that again, what can it do?"

"Uh," the researcher was startled, then overjoyed, "For the purpose of researching the principle of the revealing potion, I took two photos of a plush toy a few seconds apart..."

"It can interpolate frames for film?" Murphy didn't wait for him to finish, asking.

"Yes, yes."

"Then can it interpolate frames for animated images?"

"This..." The researcher hesitated for a moment, then thought carefully, "It should be able to."

"Conduct an experiment and then report to me. By the way, what's your name?"

There were more and more people in the institute, and Murphy hadn't remembered everyone.

"Georgi Tabares, Director."

"Very good, Georgi. How long do you need to complete this experiment?"

"Very soon, maybe... ten minutes."

Five minutes later, Georgi came to Murphy with two papers, "Success, Director!"

He handed two papers to Murphy, pointing at a puppy on the images, "I had Costas—he's a painter—draw two cartoon images of a puppy, one at a crossroad and the other appearing in the distance."

"I placed the two images on top of each other, and used the revealing potion. As a result, the puppy moved along the path we drew for him. Look!"

The puppy on both images was moving in a loop, in the first image, the puppy walked from the crossroad to the edge of the frame, and in the second, from the edge of the frame to a distant place.

"When wizards use the revealing potion, they can manipulate these scenes in the paintings more freely, but when we Muggles use the revealing potion, we need some special settings to achieve the effect we want."

"For example, this frame interpolation phenomenon, if we don't constrain the starting and ending points of the puppy through the frames, it will just wander aimlessly in the painting."

"Great! Very good!" Murphy patted Georgi on the shoulder, "Thanks to you, we have money to burn."

...

April.

Umbrella Corporation acquired a local film company "Pictet," and in the same month, Murphy met with several executives of the company, throwing out a screenplay outline.

"A young lion, whose uncle kills his father and usurps the throne. The young lion is forced to wander and seek himself, eventually avenging and reclaiming the throne..."

"This... The Prince's Revenge? Hamlet?" someone said.

"Correct, but the protagonists are all animals, intended to be an animation, suitable for all ages."

The producers discussed it and felt that the idea was indeed good.

The story of Hamlet has endured for thousands of years, its dramatic charm tested by time. However, adaptations have been many, and modern audiences are no longer interested in stories about princes and kings.

But, changing the story to involve animals and making it an animation refreshes the perspective significantly.

Even more, the strong symbolic and allegorical nature inherent in animal characters is extremely suitable for the classical characters of such works.

"This is a genius idea," someone praised.

They had thought it was a wealthy individual's vanity project, but his first initiative was such a thoughtful piece.

"With the story of Hamlet as a foundation, the script is not difficult to create, and the animation characters are also easy to grasp," a veteran animation director said.

"We'll find some scriptwriters, polish it for a month or two, and we should be able to draft a script. Drawing is the most time-consuming, but if we hire more artists, we should be able to complete most of the animation in a year. In about a year and a half, we should hope to release."

"A year? That's too long!" Murphy shook his head, "Seize the day, my friends."

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