Yeah, I like the new chart.
It looks fine to me. 
PhotoShop is now subscribtion based.
Irfanview Settings -> Toolbar -> Check all boxes
Then the third icon brings you to Irfan View Thumbnails
this is really odd, but my brother just told me his son is going to do an internship at a tech company in Orange County, CA.
Cool, I said, which one? Anduril he said, and spelled it out.
What? I didn’t know Anduril was a company, and certainly not a company that would hire a guy with a masters from MIT in aerospace engineering.
So I said it’s a small world, that I had thought Anduril was a not well known user interface for flashlight enthusiasts.
He laughed. turns out Anduril is a fast growing privately funded artificial intelligence defense contractor that has grown from a few employees in 2017 to almost 1000 this year, and valued at $8B based on the Dec 2022 Series E funding.
Anyway, anybody know how Toykeeper, whoever that is, chose the name Anduril for his flashlight UI?
I somehow never realized that Reddit was converting images to webp format until someone pointed it out recently, so I added a link to the PNG file in my Reddit post. I keep that post up to date and I don’t change the links, so the link to the PNG file should always be the latest version. Sorry I didn’t see all these comments here earlier about the file format.
If you find anything wrong with the chart or have any suggestions, please feel free to PM me. And thanks to Lex-Perpetua for developing the chart in the first place.
Lord of the Rings…… The sword of Elendil was known as Marsil…Sword-that-was-Broken, Shards of Narsil; after its reforging it was named Andúril.
There is/was a ramping firmware called Narsil that preceded Anduril. Toykeeper and I believe Tom_E was responsible for Narsil.
Inspiration for Anduril explained by ToyKeeper.
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Thanks for that link
thank you 
Jameshome from Reddit had another go on an Andúril2 UI-Diagramm
https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/10j533u/a_one_page_printable_guide_to_andúril_2/
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Folks, it took me way too long, but I finally adapted my Anduril 2 diagram for the multi-channel version. It’s up to date as of r728, and posted over on Lemmy. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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Thanks for your amazing effort, those diagrams are spectacular.
Looking forward to your update for Single-Channel Anduril 2.
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Good reminder! I do need to update my single-channel diagram. I’ll see if I can do that tomorrow.
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Your diagrams along with ToyKeeper’s User Manual and a flashlight can motivate youngsters that are “learning to read” to improve both their reading comprehension and their appreciation for “reading to learn”.
I am going to find a shop that can print the diagrams large enough so that they can be easily read. Currently I just zoom in on the screen image.
Eventually, I may even have “Anduril 2 Table Placemats” made as a novelty gift item, if they can have suitable resolution for readability and are durable.
Thanks again.
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Has anyone encountered that when I install a step ramp, then at more than 40 steps, subsequent steps do not differ in brightness, and at 70 steps the ramp disappears and there is only 1 bright level? And when there are about 30 steps or more, then with a continuous downward movement, when the lantern reaches the floor, does it go into blocking mode?
I just tried that… I set a TS10 to have 40 steps
I then ramped up just a few steps, and then ramped down to the floor… it does not go into lockout
however, there IS an Auto lock feature meant to respond to a continuous hold, such as if the light is in a pocket and the button is pressed down constantly. it works like this:
Hold button, light ramps all the way up to maximum, continue holding the button, now it ramps down and when it reaches the floor, it locks.
this is intentional…
btw, there is a trick to unlock… unscrew the head, wait 2 seconds, then when head is retightened the light is no longer locked… iow, unscrewing the head, such as for a battery change, unlocks the light.
I also tested setting 70 steps in the ramp mode. The result was 2 low modes and one very bright mode… not useful
btw, when I need 70 steps, I do 1H seven times… iow, 1H is equivalent to 10 clics… so no need to clic 70 times…
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There is a bug in how the ramp steps are calculated, but only when the number of stepped ramp steps is between 51% and 99% of the total number of levels.
Let’s say you set up the stepped ramp like this: floor = 10, ceil = 130. That means there are 121 total levels. When the number of stepped ramp steps is 61 or less, it should work. It’s also fine with 121 steps. But at 62 to 120 steps, the integer math sometimes doesn’t line up, and it can make the stepped ramp fail to find the correct level.
I should fix it at some point, if I can find a better algorithm which doesn’t use more ROM. But for now, if you want a large number of steps, I recommend using the smooth ramp instead. The speed can be adjusted to make it easy to see each individual level.
In general, I don’t recommend using more than ~20 steps or so. Ideally 10 or less.
Yes, this is intentional. It assumes the button is stuck, and it locks itself. This helps prevent fires when a light is packed in luggage, with something accidentally holding the button down.
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Wow! Thank you both very much! It is very useful. No-no, there is no point in 70 steps, I just received it yesterday, the first flashlight with anduril, and decided to see what could be configured. I agree, 10 steps turned out to be optimal. This kind of blocking can be very useful.
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She chose the name to pay respect to Narsil, the previous firmware in its lineage.
According to LotR wikis…
Narsil means “Red and white flame”, from nár ("fire) and thil (“white flame”). It symbolizes the Sun and Moon, the “chief heavenly lights, as enemies of darkness”.
Elendil carried Narsil in the Battle of Dagorlad where it shone with the light of the Sun and Moon …
Elendil’s son Isildur took up the sword and used its shard to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron.
It was later reforged into Andúril, and would become the sword of Aragorn …
“Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.”
Unlike the books though, it’s not literally forged from pieces of Narsil. It’s more of a spiritual successor, and was written totally from scratch. I started by making sort of a microkernel / UI toolkit called FSM, and then made Anduril as one of several UIs on top of that.
The military contractor is completely unrelated. But if they decide they’d like to pay me to keep making open-source flashlight firmware, that would be, like, super helpful. It would really help me keep the lights on… both literally and figuratively.
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Who is this ToyKeeper person anyway…
Legend says that she is an intelligent and brave goddess warrior, but who is she really? 
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I think this goes in this thread since I don’t have a “Lemmy_World” account.
I send the screenshots of the two diagram the Simple UI and the Advanced UI.
In all my Anduril lights in Simple UI mode I can also switch from smooth ramp to step ramp with 3C as in Advanced UI mode where if 3C is shown.
I say this so that if someone can access it to let me know or modify it is a good thing to put.
More or less it would look like this I have edited it to the beast 
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