Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 125 Seize the Day, Friends!

"Director, we've tested..." Pex was about to explain the recent research on the intelligence-enhancing drug to Murphy when Murphy raised his hand to interrupt him, "How many bottles of intelligence-enhancing drug do you have here?"

He had made quite a few of these things when he was in school, so he knew what the effects of the medicine were like and therefore did not listen to the other party's report.

"Uh... We just received ten bottles last week, and three, no, five of them were used for experiments, so we have five left."

"Okay, give them all to me."

Murphy received the intelligence-enhancing potion, downed the whole bottle in one gulp, and felt a cool sensation surge into his brain, as if his head had instantly doubled in size, able to hold even more.

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

"It works!" Murphy was overjoyed. "Omid, I think it's necessary to have Pex join your mind magic research group."

"Pex, from now on you can share your research findings with Mr. Omid," Murphy said, patting him on the shoulder. "Keep it up, Pex. I look forward to the day when the intelligence-enhancing drug will be permanently effective."

After saying that, he left Omid behind and prepared to depart.

Having obtained the intelligence-enhancing drug and temporarily resolved the aftereffects of his complete memory, he prepared to return to the medical laboratory and give himself another shot.

The Lion King is nothing special; he actually has a lot of things in his head that can play a much greater role.

For example, it can accelerate the memory of instruction sets in chip IP core design.

As a programmer, he recalled taking courses on ARM-based 64-bit instruction set programming languages.

Although I only went through it at double speed to learn some basic knowledge at the time, I have now forgotten most of it.

However, if he can remember them all, he can submit the design ideas for the compiled instructions to the designers of ARM, so that they can work backwards to deduce the instruction set architecture and then the CPU functional circuit design.

Although it will still take a lot of time, doing the questions by referring to the answers is still much faster.

In addition, he also has some knowledge that can be used in system development. Although he can't create a usable computer system from scratch, he should be able to speed up the research and development process in this area.

"Director," but Murphy hadn't taken more than a few steps when a researcher caught up with him, "Director, I've discovered a use for developing chemicals..."

"Developing agents?"

Murphy wasn't particularly interested; it was just a potion that could make drawings move automatically, and he felt its applications were limited. He hadn't paid attention to that area. "You can publish it directly in the institute's journal. Good luck..."

"Director..."

The researcher remained behind him. "Director, the developing solution can correct changes in the scene before and after a photograph is taken. It can automatically generate information, this information..."

"Hmm..." Murphy listened, still thinking about extracting those memories later, and casually said, "If you think of any applications for them, you can go find Laura..."

The elevator had arrived, and Murphy stepped inside, but out of respect for his researcher, he tried to listen to what the other person had to say.

"I've found an application area!"

"Director, the developing solution can automatically interpolate frames from the film!"

"It can selectively complete a scene; if two images are taken consecutively, the developing solution can automatically and naturally reveal the changes between the two images..."

"That's fine, Director..."

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

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

"Uh," the researcher paused for a moment, then beamed with delight, "In order to study the principle of the developing solution, I took two photos of a caterpillar a few seconds apart..."

"Can it perform frame interpolation on film?" Murphy asked before the latter could finish speaking.

Yes, yes.

"Can it perform frame interpolation on animation footage?"

"This..." The researcher paused for a moment, then thought carefully, "It should be possible."

"Go do an experiment and report back to me. By the way, what's your name?"

As the number of people at the research institute increased, Murphy couldn't remember everyone.

"George Tabárez, Director."

"Very good, Giorgione. How long will it take you to complete this experiment?"

"Soon, maybe... in ten minutes..."

Five minutes later, George arrived at Murphy's table with two sheets of paper. "It worked, Chief!"

He handed two pieces of paper to Murphy, pointing to a small dog in the picture and saying, "I asked Costas—he's an artist—to draw two cartoons of a dog, one of which is at a crossroads, and the other of which is a dog already appearing in the distance."

"I stacked the two pictures together and used developing solution at the same time, and the puppy started following the path we drew for it. See!"

The two pictures show the dog in a loop. In the first picture, the dog walks from the intersection to the edge of the picture, and in the second picture, the dog walks from the edge of the picture to a distance.

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

"For example, in this frame interpolation phenomenon, if we don't constrain the puppy's starting and ending points through the image, the puppy will just wander aimlessly in the picture."

"Great! Excellent!" Murphy patted George on the shoulder with delight. "Thanks to you, we have money to keep burning."

……

April.

That same month, after the Umbrella Corporation acquired a local film company called Pickett, Murphy met with several of the company's top executives and presented them with a script outline.

"A lion cub whose uncle killed his father and usurped the throne. The cub was forced to wander far from home to find himself, and eventually took revenge and reclaimed the throne..."

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

"That's good, but the main characters are all animals. It needs to be made into an animation that's suitable for all ages."

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

Hamlet's story has remained popular for thousands of years, and its dramatic charm has stood the test of time. However, it has been adapted many times, and modern people no longer feel anything for stories about princes and kings.

However, changing the story to animals and the format to animation made the viewing experience much fresher.

Furthermore, the strong symbolism and allegorical nature inherent in animal imagery are extremely suitable for characters in classical works.

"That's a brilliant idea," someone exclaimed.

I thought it was just a rich person doing it for fun, but I didn't expect them to come up with something so original.

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

"We'll find some screenwriters and polish the script for a month or two, and we should be able to produce a draft. Drawing takes the most time, but if we hire more animators, we should be able to complete most of the animation in a year. We should be able to release it in about a year and a half."

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

(End of this chapter)