Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 139 New Color Matching Technology

Xu Shenxue looked at the two ultra-thin business notebooks in front of him. From the first glance, they looked better than the fruit notebooks next to them for comparison, or in other words, they were more in line with Xu Shenxue's personal aesthetic.

After all, whether something looks good or not is a rather mysterious matter. Everyone has different aesthetic views, so naturally their opinions are also different.

For example, Xu Shenxue personally doesn’t like overly rounded designs. He also hates plastic shells and even more so messy appearance designs... It’s not that his aesthetic taste is so good, it’s purely influenced by the industrial aesthetics of later generations.

But some people may like this kind of roundness or bright colors and so on.

The two YunBooks in front of him are more in line with his requirements in terms of aesthetic appearance, and they are both good in terms of color matching and appearance design.

At least it won't make him feel like he's outdated and retro.
Influenced by the aesthetics of his original time and space, Xu Shenxue actually has a very strange sense of retro when he sees many contemporary things... Or take mobile phones, after seeing various feature phones and pseudo-smart phones, he subconsciously regards these things as antiques from the last century.

Then I saw Apple's 3G 3GS and even its own Zhiyun C series, and I felt they were all too old-fashioned...

The only one that suits his aesthetic taste is the S9, and Xu Shenxue still thinks the S9 is not good enough. For example, the screen is too small. If it were not for technical limitations, it would be impossible to produce a large-size screen with high resolution at a limited cost. When Xu Shenxue first launched the S9, he would have directly used a larger screen.

However, due to cost and technical constraints, this cannot be achieved for the time being, and only a four-inch screen can be used... In Xu Shenxue's opinion, it has a somewhat retro feel.

However, the two laptops in front of him did not give Xu Shenxue this retro feeling... Although they were not amazing at first glance, they made Xu Shenxue feel that they were quite standard.

This is actually a very difficult evaluation... because Xu Shenxue's evaluation is directly based on the standards of the 1920s in his previous life...

That’s more than ten years difference!

Because of the changes in technology, the design changes in industrial aesthetics are actually huge...

In addition to the overall appearance design, Xu Shenxue also felt that the color scheme was good. It was not the same old silver-gray aluminum alloy shell, but a color scheme with a hint of dark gray.

At this time, Wang Kuan was also explaining the color scheme: "For color matching, we referred to some color schemes and technologies from the mobile phone team. In addition to the traditional silver-white color, we also used the dark gray scheme that the mobile phone team abandoned!"

"The S phone team, considering that dark grey would bring a sense of heaviness, prefers brighter colours such as silver and black. In addition, I heard they are also working on gold and pink-purple colours!"

"But our notebook team feels that this dark grey color is more in line with the high-end business positioning of business notebooks, and the overall look is more textured!"

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue said, "This color combination is good. It looks better than a mobile phone!"

Xu Shenxue had seen this dark gray color scheme on a mobile phone before, but to be honest, the effect was not very good. Instead of looking high-end, it looked a bit tacky.

However, the same color scheme, when put on the notebook, gave Xu Shenxue a high-end and textured feeling!
I have to say that industrial aesthetics is really mysterious.

"In addition, we also referred to the pink and purple scheme of the mobile phone team and prepared to come up with a light purple color scheme, but after trying several, it didn't work out. We are still entrusting Anlong Precision to develop a new color scheme!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Anlong Precision is still relatively reliable, you don't have to worry, just wait for their good news!"

For a mobile phone or notebook, the most direct influence on its appearance is the color. At the same time, Zhiyun Technology began to use a new aluminum alloy material on the S9 mobile phone. However, aluminum alloy is very difficult to color, and there are only a few available colorants.

In order to match the color of aluminum alloys, Anlong Precision, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Technology, has a large color matching project team that specializes in developing various colorants and coloring processes.

After more than a year of hard work, there are some results. In addition to the conventional silver and black colors, Anlong Precision has successively developed a variety of colorants... Then based on the new colorants, they were adjusted and integrated, and finally three new color matching technologies of gold, pink purple, and dark gray were developed!
That’s right, it’s not a simple color scheme, but a color matching technique!
Behind each color here is a new colorant and a relatively unique coloring process...all developed by Anlong Precision itself.

You can't get these colorants outside, let alone the corresponding coloring technology.

Every color combination is Zhiyun Technology’s exclusive patented technology.

To paint metal, simply put, is to paint it... At first glance, it seems very simple, and the streets are full of painted metal products.

However, if you want to achieve high-strength paint, excellent scratch resistance, and long-term use without paint loss and discoloration, and a good feel... at the same time, it also requires extreme lightness and thinness, and many other messy conditions.

Once these conditions are combined, the technical difficulty will instantly approach the limit of current human basic technology... What is involved behind this is serious high-tech technology, playing with materials and advanced processes, and it is not so easy to do.

Anlong Precision is also able to carry out corresponding research because of the massive support from its parent company Zhiyun Technology...

However, the company's financial support only enables them to carry out projects. The reason why these projects can really produce results... is also closely related to Xu Shenxue's scientific research system.

When it comes to scientific research, it’s not enough to just have money and connections...sometimes luck and inspiration are very important.

Xu Shenxue couldn't give luck, but he could still give some inspiration to researchers...

This is also the main reason why Zhiyun Technology's scientific research and technological development progress in all aspects is relatively smooth.

Most of the scientific researchers under Zhiyun Technology have quotas in the scientific research system.

As Xu Shenxue's achievement points accumulated more and more, he allocated one D-level quota for every ten achievement points... As long as one was a scientific researcher, he could basically get one. However, there were relatively few C-level quotas, probably about a few hundred.

There are even fewer B-level places, with only eight so far... and three of them have long been monopolized in the field of chip design and manufacturing... and the remaining five rotate among various projects.

If a project is more difficult or urgent, Xu Shenxue will temporarily assign a B-level quota to the core technical person in charge of the project, allowing him to experience the refreshing feeling of having his brain opened up by a wave of B-level scientific research quotas.

Of course, it is impossible for him to experience it for too long. Basically, once the technical difficulties are overcome, Xu Shenxue will take the quota back and assign it to other projects in need.

For example, Wang Kuan felt that he was in particularly good shape for a period of time. He was like a god when he was designing the internal structure of the laptop. He had been struggling for several months to figure out the conflicts of crowded internal space and heat dissipation. Finally, during this period of time, he took advantage of his good condition and led his team to come up with a completely new version of the internal structure design.

Just after completing the design of this internal structure, Wang Kuan felt like he was back to his old ways...so much so that he often sighed that the status was too mysterious. You couldn't stop it when it came, and you couldn't stop it when it left.

What he didn't know was that... Xu Shenxue had seen that the progress of the business project was slow some time ago, and after learning that the main problem was the heat dissipation problem stuck in the internal structure design, he gave a B-level system quota to Wang Kuan, who was personally responsible for the research and development of this project... With all-round enhancement, Wang Kuan, who already had outstanding technical capabilities, felt even more at ease and finally solved the problem smoothly.

There are no places for the higher-level A-level and S-level at the moment. One A-level place requires 10,000 achievement points, and Xu Shenxue cannot accumulate so many achievement points at the moment... As for the S-level, that place costs 100,000 points. Don't count on it at this stage, you have to save up slowly in the future.

Scientific research quotas are of great help to various R&D projects.

The aluminum alloy body of Anlong Precision is no exception.

Otherwise, it would not be so easy for Anlong Precision to come up with these new color schemes.

Otherwise, with so many manufacturers around the world, why hasn’t any mobile phone manufacturer followed Zhiyun Technology’s example and launched aluminum alloy bodies? It can’t do it!
If they force it, it will be the same as the first generation of iPhone. Because of the poor material performance, it is made thicker, and the coloring process is also not good, and the paint is very easy to fall off... Why do you think iPhone changed from the aluminum alloy material of the first generation of iPhone to plastic for iPhone 3G 3GS... It is because the first generation of iPhone exposed a lot of problems after using an aluminum alloy body!

At the same time, they couldn’t find aluminum alloy materials that could meet actual usage requirements for the time being... just like Zhiyun Technology’s previous attempt to find a technical solution on the market and ultimately failed.

There is no such aluminum alloy technical solution on the current market... This is also the reason why Zhiyun Technology was considered by outsiders to be a serious cross-industry aluminum alloy developer... There was nothing suitable on the market, so we had no choice but to do it ourselves.

After acquiring Anlong Precision, they recruited a large group of relevant talents and found a group of experts and professors from colleges and universities to cooperate with... This group of traditional experts who had never seen the market had no chance to see the arrogance of high-tech companies spending money before, and then they saw it...

Damn, just to make a mobile phone case, hundreds of millions of research and development funds were thrown into the water.

Like a big fool...

You can see from the fact that I have only updated the third chapter now that my saved drafts are gone.

There are so many trivial things to do these two days that it is too difficult to write...

I just found out that it’s the 1st, so I just went to get the monthly ticket. I don’t have any goal, I just want to get a label of or th on the monthly ticket list on the book introduction page... it looks good.

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