sortedarraylist update; physball breaks the actor render dunno why

src/net/torvald/terrarum/blockproperties/Wire.kt

@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ object Wire {
     const val BIT_UTILITY_PROTOTYPE = 2
     const val BIT_POWER_LOW = 4
     const val BIT_POWER_HIGHT = 8
-    const val BIT_ETHERNET = 16
+    const val BIT_PARALLEL_8B = 16 // uses bit-to-mantissa encoding
+    const val BIT_PARALLEL_16B = 32 // uses bit-to-mantissa encoding
+    const val BIT_ETHERNET = 64 // the actual datagramme should be represented by another means than the ConduitFills
 
-    /* A mapping for World's conduitFills[] index */
+    /* A mapping for World's WiringNode.fills[] index */
     const val FILL_ID_SIGNAL_RED = 0
     const val FILL_ID_UTILITY_PROTOTYPE = 1
 
@@ -23,4 +25,22 @@ object Wire {
         else -> null
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Encodes a byte to Float's mantissa. Normal value range is 1.0..1.99609375. When decoding, the sign and exponent bits
+     * must be ignored. (e.g. the encoded float might have non-one-point-something value after "bitwise" add/subtraction.
+     *
+     * MSB of the byte is also the highest bit in the mantissa. Therefore ```0x80``` will be encoded as ```1.5```
+     */
+    fun Byte.toFloatMantissa(): Float = Float.fromBits(0x3F800000 or (this.toInt().and(0xFF) shl 15))
+    fun Short.toFloatMantissa(): Float = Float.fromBits(0x3F800000 or (this.toInt().and(0xFFFF) shl 7))
+
+    /**
+     * This function does the reversal calculation.
+     *
+     * @see net.torvald.terrarum.blockproperties.Wire.toFloatMantissa
+     */
+    fun Float.fromMantissaToByte(): Byte = this.toRawBits().ushr(15).and(0xFF).toByte()
+    fun Float.fromMantissaToShort(): Short = this.toRawBits().ushr(7).and(0xFFFF).toShort()
+
 }