Reactor

  • Bioreactor, is a device which controls biologically active environment.
  • Chemical reactor, a device for containing and controlling a chemical reaction
  • Fusion reactor, a device for containing and controlling a fusion power reaction
  • An inductor (possessing reactance) in an electrical power grid
  • A current limiting reactor is used to limit starting current of motors and to protect variable frequency drives
  • Nuclear reactor, a device for containing and controlling a nuclear reaction
  • Reactor (Havok), a physics simulation engine
  • The reactor pattern, a design pattern used in concurrent programming
  • Reactor an alternative title for the 1978 Italian film War of the Robots directed by Alfonso Brescia
  • Re-ac-tor, a 1981 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
  • Reactor (arcade game), an arcade game created by Gottlieb
  • Reactor, Inc., a defunct interactive entertainment company founded by Mike Saenz
  • Reactor (video game)

    Reactor is a raster video arcade game released in 1982 by Gottlieb. The object of the game is to cool down the reactor core without being hurled by magnetism and repulsion by enemy swarms of nuclear particles.

    Reactor was developed by Tim Skelly, who was also responsible for Star Castle and Solar Quest. It was the first arcade game to credit the developer on the game's title screen.

    Gameplay

    The player controls a cursor that can move freely within a screen-sized arena, the nuclear reactor. The center contains a sun-type gravitational power source, the slowly overheating reactor core. The surrounding wall or the sun, if touched results in death. The cursor is controlled with a trackball by the player, who has to roll it fast in one direction in order to overcome the momentum of gravitation imposed by the sun. Swarms of enemy objects named after various radioactive particles float around in the reactor arena, obeying simple physical laws. These enemies can freely bounce into the walls at low speeds, have a repulsive force against each other and actively attack the player cursor. Boss types often break up into several smaller particles.

    Reactor (software)

    Reactor is a physics engine from the Irish software company Havok for use in Autodesk 3ds Max.

    Overview

    Reactor shipped fully integrated with 3ds max from versions 5 to 2011. In 3ds max 2012, Reactor was replaced by a PhysX-based engine called MassFX. Reactor was often used for realistic physics simulation that would be difficult or time-consuming to animate by hand.

    Dynamics types

    Reactor is capable of computing rigid body, soft body, cloth and rope collisions, and even all four types interacting with each other. A robust physics engine, reactor can handle several hundred rigid bodies interacting with each other without a problem on most computers. Reactor can also simulate dynamics of any supported type interacting with a water volume, including adjustable viscosity and depth, among other things.

    Forces and constraints

    Reactor includes a large number of forces that can be used in simulation, apart from the default gravity: springs, dashpots, motors, wind, fractures (breakable objects), even a "toy car" type, with definable body/axis/wheels. Reactor also has many constraints available, including hinges, point-to-point constraints, prismatic constraints, car-wheel constraints, point-to-path constraints, and even ragdoll constraints to realistically simulate a lifeless body. In addition, reactor is compatible with Space Warp modifiers in 3ds max.

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Reactor

    by: Garage Fuzz

    There is no greater power, the future's yours and mine
    Another man-made wilderness, across the final line
    We're giving truth no quarter, and who cares what they say
    It seems to be a fair exchange, tomorrow for today
    Once more we play with fire
    Once more the damage done
    The future's burning like the sun
    Reactor, reactor,
    What have we done,
    Reactor
    We hear the future crying, why do we not reply
    We see our children dying, under a red atomic sky
    Too late for turning back now, too late to count the cost
    Too late the race, already lost
    Reactor, reactor,
    What have we done, reactor
    It's not the way it's meant to be
    Reactor
    A real life science fiction, we've put aside our fears
    But buried deep beneath our feet, it lasts a thousand year
    Once more we play with fire
    Once more the damage done
    The future's burning like the sun
    Reactor, reactor,
    What have we done, reactor
    It's not the way it's meant to be




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