15 Testing different Array configurations

Overall today was a pretty slow day, work did ramp up after lunch when we were able to use the primary computer in our lab. Once we were on it, we tested other camera configurations, part of our project that is technically more specific to Nate. We tested varying things from curved arrays to different numbers of cameras. An array of 24 cameras was pretty cool.

14 More features, more fixes

This morning we quickly solved the issue we had left yesterday. We soon realized the problem causing some difficulty in the arrays processing was a lack of files for it to read. The features we added today were focused mainly around increasing ease of use of the program, notably error messages. Now if someone sets the array live and there are no images to process it notifies the user and makes the array offline. Overall today was very productive, we will be continuing similar work tomorrow, and also start testing some alternate configurations generated in Maya.

13 Fixing features

Great news! Today our lab collaboratively finished our outline. Elizabeth and I were also able to complete many minor fixes to features with the Multi-Camera Array application. These features now allow the application to be made full screen or re-sized with a mouse. There are still plenty of features necessary to tweak in order to truly complete the application, however today was a big step towards that.

12 A very special day

Today is my Birthday! Kind of, not really at all. So today we went forward with tweaking the processing and adding new features to the application. We also found out our algorithm works just as fast on color images from the pi cams.

This the afternoon I took part in Mia and Simran's experiment. It was neat-o. Overall a very solid day accompanied by free lunch.

10 + 11 Getting ready to present | Presentation

(Yesterday) Today we prepared for the presentation on Friday.  We spent the afternoon reviewing and revising our presentation and which parts each of us would be presenting.

Actually today we presented at the Undergraduate Symposium! It went surprisingly well and after the fact a guy who works at a security company talked to us about the potential uses of our system.

Lots of free food and mountain dew today. Good day(s).

09 Take that Matlab!

This morning I began working out the issues with the processing code. Much to my surprise we were able to work out this problem relatively quickly. As of today we successfully reproduced the Matlab processing code in C++, plus (heh) ours is much prettier. Our code also presents a performance increase from 3-4 frames per second to 16 with no optimizations.

The rush received as a result of this accomplishment is rivaled only by that known to those who witnessed Ronald Reagan's single handed destruction of the Berlin wall. The freedom in the air was palpable in both situations. On a more serious note, today was excellent, much candy was eaten.

Looking forward to finalizing and practicing our presentation tomorrow.

08 Bug fixes and presentation stuff

It was quite an eventful day! We made great progress today by working out one of the major bugs we experienced yesterday that was preventing the continuous looping of our system, and hence processing of our images. After working that bug out we were able to almost replicate the functionality of the Matlab code.

This afternoon we also worked on our PowerPoint with Joe. That was swell. I'm actually quite excited for the symposium Friday.

Lunch today was also very good. I had a cheeseburger. And drank some mountain dew. Tasted like freedom and liberty. God bless.