Comments | hello_navi: Layers?

dontcallmejesus in hello_navi

Layers?

Feb 04, 2005 20:27

OSI Seven-Layer ModelI wonder if this has anything to do with Lain. There are thirteen layers, or episodes. I don't really understand this layer system much, it seems to be seven different types of functions, different ways that computers can connect to each other. Heck, I might be thinking this all wrong ( Read more... )

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church_grim February 5 2005, 04:57:56 UTC

:0! Oh my God...you have the greatest icon ever. ;_;

dontcallmejesus February 5 2005, 05:01:08 UTC

Uh...thanks? I didn't make it, I forgot who to give credit to. Oops.

church_grim February 5 2005, 05:16:28 UTC

haha. Your user name is awesome, too. :D

dontcallmejesus February 5 2005, 17:14:58 UTC

Okay, that I made. Love your icon, it's cute!

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quazo February 5 2005, 07:49:52 UTC

perhaps they call them layers because each one gets deeper and deeper into the series??

dontcallmejesus February 5 2005, 17:19:31 UTC

Sounds right...but each layer can only interact with the layer immediately beneath it. So does that mean each layer sets up the next one?

shiro_no_wired February 6 2005, 03:03:44 UTC

Absolutely! Everything builds up to the final two layers.

church_grim February 5 2005, 17:20:20 UTC

good point...like each one gets closer to center of the wired or what have you.

tasogarenokagi February 5 2005, 17:53:50 UTC

The seven-layer model is a method of abstracting away all the little details one would otherwise have to deal with in designing networked computer systems. For example, the standard describing Ethernet - the characteristics of the cables, the connectors on the ends, how to package and send data over the connection - are described in documents that are part of the lower two layers (physical and data link). The higher layers thus don't have to worry about how their data is being transfered, the lower layers take care of that.

The usage of 'layer' as the title for episodes in SELain is probably just an allusion to this model, though as several people have already said this may be an attempt to make a subliminal message that the world of Lain is far more complex than the one we inhabit.

shiro_no_wired February 6 2005, 03:06:08 UTC

Seven...the Eiri internet protocol was Gen7, wasn't it?

*Points up to quazo's thread* Took the words right from my...mouth? Fingers?

What was OSI supposed to do? Act like the internet?

a_grilled_fish February 6 2005, 18:01:30 UTC

I think there are 13 layers rather than 7 because there are 13 weeks in one television season. Just my theory, but that's why most anime have either 13 episodes or a multiple of 13. (Many have 26 episodes)

tasogarenokagi February 6 2005, 21:27:25 UTC

aye, that be the real reason (13 * 4 = 52 weeks in a year), but there have been a fair number of series that haven't followed this convention (Ai Yori Aoshi, Battle Programmer Shirase being ones i can think of).