Astro Visualization update
Darn, forgot to see Alan today. Better get in earlier tomorrow (say, before 3pm) and show him his group's data on Scope's geowall.
Mark and Randy seem to be having a whale of a time at the AAS Gadgets and Gizmos section - great! We're the hit of the session, apparently. Rather unfair, really, since some of the other demos are almost certainly more useful. We're just prettier. Mark tested one of Jason's students' games on a kid who wandered in, it seemed to like it. Anything involving shooting is good.
Got back in touch with Jess to see if she had any more data for us. This is after a break in comms of over ten weeks. Turns out she does, so there may be new data soon.
Daisuke, Brenda and I had a nice session getting Daisuke's data to look better. Good session, learnt stuff. Now using polygons instead of points... now I just need to figure out a way to subsample his data to make it smaller so we can get more timesteps.
Gave Brian a suggestion for how to deal with multiplanetary exosystems on the Digital Universe.
Added a shameless plug for Randy to his Astro Visualization Workshop on the main Cosmus page. He said I should submit something for it, we'll talk about that when he returns.
Dredged up the Galaxy Type Classification project thanks to Mark sending an email about a grey man wanting to see it. I tried PCA, Laplacian Eigenmaps, LLE, and Isomap on the same data (looks good when the field of view is 90 degrees - thanks Cart for that technique!), and sent it to him just now. He'll try it tomorrow. Vik is back in the equation.
Cart says I should apply to the NEI Focus Group at Chabot. Flattering, but that's not for me yet. I suggested to Mark that some of the UIC students who made geowall games for Adler should go instead.
Mark and Randy seem to be having a whale of a time at the AAS Gadgets and Gizmos section - great! We're the hit of the session, apparently. Rather unfair, really, since some of the other demos are almost certainly more useful. We're just prettier. Mark tested one of Jason's students' games on a kid who wandered in, it seemed to like it. Anything involving shooting is good.
Got back in touch with Jess to see if she had any more data for us. This is after a break in comms of over ten weeks. Turns out she does, so there may be new data soon.
Daisuke, Brenda and I had a nice session getting Daisuke's data to look better. Good session, learnt stuff. Now using polygons instead of points... now I just need to figure out a way to subsample his data to make it smaller so we can get more timesteps.
Gave Brian a suggestion for how to deal with multiplanetary exosystems on the Digital Universe.
Added a shameless plug for Randy to his Astro Visualization Workshop on the main Cosmus page. He said I should submit something for it, we'll talk about that when he returns.
Dredged up the Galaxy Type Classification project thanks to Mark sending an email about a grey man wanting to see it. I tried PCA, Laplacian Eigenmaps, LLE, and Isomap on the same data (looks good when the field of view is 90 degrees - thanks Cart for that technique!), and sent it to him just now. He'll try it tomorrow. Vik is back in the equation.
Cart says I should apply to the NEI Focus Group at Chabot. Flattering, but that's not for me yet. I suggested to Mark that some of the UIC students who made geowall games for Adler should go instead.
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