Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (2019)(amusingplanet.com)
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Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (2019)
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/vladimir-lukyanovs-water-computer.html
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One past thread:
Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525534 - Nov 2018 (72 comments)
Kind of related but not directly:
MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843255 - Jan 2019 (6 comments)
The Water Computer (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846599 - Jan 2019 (26 comments)
MONIAC, a hydraulic computer that modeled the economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812721 - July 2015 (6 comments)
MONIAC: an analogue computer using fluidic logic to model an economy. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081 - Aug 2012 (1 comment)
Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525534 - Nov 2018 (72 comments)
Kind of related but not directly:
MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843255 - Jan 2019 (6 comments)
The Water Computer (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846599 - Jan 2019 (26 comments)
MONIAC, a hydraulic computer that modeled the economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812721 - July 2015 (6 comments)
MONIAC: an analogue computer using fluidic logic to model an economy. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081 - Aug 2012 (1 comment)
Somewhat off-topic, but the philosopher Tim Maudlin conceived of a water-based Turing machine for a thought experiment.
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/80-300/madlin1989.pdf
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/80-300/madlin1989.pdf
It’s Terry Pratchet’s Glooper.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
Close, but as detailed in your link, Glooper is closer to MONIAC - links by dang in sibling to your comment.
Some people are just on a whole different level.
Steve Mould has a video where he built logic gates using water: https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw
Too many leaks.
Imagine using the metal of a T-1000 as the 'water', and another T-1000 as the 'computer'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_macroeconomics