Buffered Data Dam - Allowing smooth inputting

Grasshopper
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Hey everyone,

I get the feeling I’m overlooking something - it can’t be that noone else thought this was a problem.

When I change some Input with a Data Dam down the road, the Data dam counts down from the first Input it received. This leads to a slider operating normally until the timer ran out, then everything halting and a recomputing of the solution from the Data Dam on. Why isn’t there a “Buffered Data Dam” that resets the timer everytime a new Input came through. So:

New Input: 1s Timer starts
Timer runs down to 0.7s
New Input: Timer resets to 1s
Timer runs down to 0.9s
New Input: Timer resets to 1s
Timer runs down to 0s
Data is given through

I tried building a component with ChatGPT but that didn’t work unfortunaly…

I Just can’t imagine this isn’t something someone has already thought of, so I suppose it’s some technical problem that can’t be fixed everyone except me knows of…

Would love if the community could bring me up to speed.

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Data Dam timer is reset just the first time a given input changes, for each input

this means that if you have many different inputs to the same Data Dam, each of those inputs can trigger a new timer reset once, but the very same input won’t reset the timer again once they have already triggered a reset

a sort of fake-solution to your problem might be to split the data that you would like to trigger a restart in many chunks, and connect each of those to a different Data Dam input, then rebuild the original data structure just after the Dam