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April 13th, 2007 by Matthew
Wednesday I…
- Finished my last CPSC 699 seminar review.
- Installed Plot for data plotting in OS X. Also installed Graph Sketcher, but I wasn’t very impressed.
- Used Photoshop Automator Actions v3.0 to automate some image processing workflow.
- Heard about the death of American writer Kurt Vonnegut at age 84.
- Implemented a histogram generator in Book Rdx to get a better idea of the data distribution. A mild amount of stress ensued when I mistakenly thought that my mean/standard deviation calculator was fundamentally wrong–which it wasn’t.
- Told my sister Mary how cool she was… oh wait that is what I should have done but didn’t! [This is what happens when you leave your WP account logged in at home.]
Thursday I…
- Attended Uta’s CSCW 2006 overview presentation–well done!
- Conducted an informal colour survey.
- Went to Peter’s Drive-In for lunch.
- Dramatically improved the data to colour mapping technique–oh, the dynamic range! Too bad this amelioration came after the colour survey….
- Planned the next week’s work for AStecs with Amanda.
Friday I…
- Created a super sweet AppleScript in Automator which takes screen shots of od in action. An hour’s worth of work = 3435 images!
- Put together another Automator (man I love Automator!) script to crop the collected screen shots.
- Met with Sheelagh.
- Sorted out my LaTeX template for my AStecs final paper. Went with IEEE’s Vis/InfoVis 2007 template.
- Compiled Qt Mac OpenSource 4.2.3 version.
- Ate a burrito.
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April 10th, 2007 by Matthew
Today I…
- Created my slide set for the InfoVis 2006 conference overview presentation I’ll be giving tomorrow.
- Talked to Mark and Min about setting up Visual Studio with Qt and ARToolKit Plus–THANKS Mark + Min!
- Showed Sheelagh my axis aligned video cubism implementation.
- Talked to Mike about using Video Traces for the upcoming performance piece–two weeks away!
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April 3rd, 2007 by Matthew
Today I…
- Attended Lori Shyba‘s AStecs lecture.
- Finished reading Georg Apitz and François Guimbretière UIST 2004 paper “CrossY: a crossing-based drawing application“. A video demo is available on the project site.
- Refactored Book Redux. Added more UI components to control image blending and pause durations. Started building necessary framework for transition animations. Read and implemented how to get view coordinates from mouse actions in a subclassed NSView. Haven’t figured out how to do a mouse-drag without dragging the whole window…
- Talked to Sheelagh about all kinds of stuff.
- Sketched out an outline for my final AStecs science paper.
- Attended the AStecs/InfoVis reading group to talk about CrossY. Highest turn out yet!
- Changed the image blending rate from linear to sinusoidal, with a little help on the visual math from OS X’s Grapher.
- Downloaded Visual Studio and Windows Vista from MSDN.
On my To-Do list:
- Finish implementing transition animations and add all the OpenGL picking components so that I can use Mark’s sphere rotation code.
- Write my final AStecs science paper.
- Create a super duper final draft of the equipment manifest for AStecs performance piece.
- Get ARToolKitPlus working.
- Attend my last seminar to satisfy CPSC 699 course requirements.
- Put together my InfoVis 2006 overview slides. Presentation on Tuesday.
- Practice more yoga.
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