Tuesday and Wednesday

Sorry, I forgot to post a blog yesterday. Basically I did the same stuff yesterday as I did today. Using the ENVI program, I made normalized copies of certain documents and judged whether they were more clear or less clear than the original document. A more clear document is useful for whoever is going to be deciphering the work next. Since Mr. Easton is still gone today, I ran out of work a little bit early and didn't have much more to do. Im hoping that tomorow I can get a big chunk of the presentation out of the way since Im not going to be here Monday thru Wednesday next week.

Monday

Today, I spent a good amount of time trying to clean up the work that bethany and I did last week. It was on different hard drives and they were all labeled differently. After I fixed that, Mr. Easton gave me my work for when he is gone over the next three days. I am using the ENVI program to find the PCAs of certain documents. From there, i determine if the PCA is better or worse than the original and if it should be used when people try to read the writing.

Friday!

I already had all of my work finished for the time but I couldn't find Mr. Easton to ask about what i should do next. Luckily for me there was a lot going on so I kept myself busy. I visited some of the other labs like the Optics Lab and the Insight Lab. I also got a free lunch which is always nice.

Wednesday, August 5

Today I continued working on the pdfs for the documents. Overall, I made a lot of progress but there's still more that has to be done. I also went out to a picnic for lunch. I had a burger for free which is always nice when your in the working world. When I came back from Lunch, Bethany joined me in the lab because her professor ran out of things for her to do. She madesome of the pdfs and it helped having another person to make things go a little bit faster.

Tuesday

Today I got a lot of work done with the photoshopping of the documents. I also went out to crossroads again with Chris and Ryan. Like usual, I had a very good Arnold Palmer. I also found out today that my vacation which my parents have been planning for Virginia falls on the last week of the internship. Its going to be tough to figure this out since they needed my help setting up my brothers apartment. I am going to have to work this out soon.

U of R

On Monday, I came in expecting to go to Uof R right away but instead we were going to leave at 11:30. So, I went to my lab and got some work done for the Nigel Pantoleon photoshop templates. Then we went to get subs and I had a really good BLT. At U of R we saw a really cool laser system and a really cool conference room. It was interesting going into the rooms that overlooked the laser because we could see what they looked like while being very close up. It was interesting that they had missfires and it suprised me a bit. I would have thought that all the calculations would be perfect. Our guide wasn't great because he didn't know many of the questions and he didn't explain things too well. BEyond that, It was a fun day.

Friday!

Today we went to ITT. IT was interesting how much security we had to go through while going in. Also none of us were allowed to bring our cell phones inside. First, we went to a presentation about some of the uses of imaging science and it was pretty interesting. It was cool looking at satelite pictures which were 400 miles away. Then we took a tour of the area where they create the lens and mirrors for satalite images. It was interesting but it became very confusing and I lost track of what the machines were meant to do pretty quickly. They all seemed like they were meant to make the mirror flatter and make it so it had perfect curves. After that we took a tour of a a department which measures the amount of gas leakage through satelite images. It wasn't too interesting but some RIT imaging students worked there, which was kinda cool. Then we went out for subs which were really good. The best part was that we didnt have to pay. Now, im going to the lake for the weekend.

Thursday

On Thursday, I mostly just worked on the document for Dr. Easton which explains the process we are taking by making the graphs. I also put images into the document so that people can visualize where on the document I am talking about when i explain the patterns of the graphs and charts. After that, I wasn't sure exactly what to do next so I wandered around the building for a bit and looked at some of the other labs. Friday, we are going to ITT and I'm looking forward to that.

Wednesday

Wednesday I finished up work on the document that I was making for Mr. Easton which detailed the process of his work. I also went to the conference room for Duygu's birthday party, where we had some pizza. The pizza was great. I also found out that I actually can go to the field trip on friday. originally, I was going to get my wisdom teeth out but apparently that has been postponed and hopefully cancelled.

Tuesday, July 28

Today I continued working on the word document about the Kaleida Graph Program process. Through the Kaleida Graph program, I also made a lot more graphs of of documents with different relative powers because I began inserting charts into my word document. For lunch, I went to crossroads with Ryan and Chris. After that, I continued working on my word document and overall, I got a good deal of it done today. Tomorow, I just have to insert a few more charts and write a few more paragraphs of explanation of the process I followed.

Monday

Today we began by taking a tour of the Visual Perception Lab. Mr. Plez showed us a bunch of cool eye-tracking things. However, most of them i had already seen when I interviewed with him back in May. Luckily, i forgot about how interesting they were and I thought it was a fun time to see what another lab is doing. After that, I ended up helping out another lab with their eye-tracking experiment. I looked at a book with pictures of Rochester and then was asked question about how well I remember the pictures I had just looked at. After that, I worked on creating a document which explained what I am doing in my current project in the Document Restoration lab. I am trying to make the documentvery clear by using a lot of graphs and pictures from the process.

Friday!

First of all, I got my paycheck yesterday afternoon which was sick. 401 in the bank. During the meeting we listened to a presentation by a grad student about how he can figure out the shape of buildings through satellite and airplane pictures. Then during the morning I continued work on the documents but Roger then told me that they may need further work so I shouldn't continue until he finds out from William Noel. So, I began work on my next project which was a continuation of my past project and Rogers trip to work on documents with Abigail. During the afternoon, I also helped set up the laser for a presentation to high-schoolers tomorrow. I wouldn't say I helped too much but I did turn the lights on and off so at least I contributed.

Thursday the 23rd

Today we showed Joe and Bob Team B's explanation of how far the quarter mile actually is. We were shut down though since our answer was apparently incorrect. We had used google earth and apparently that wasn't the type of technology we were supposed to use. The rest of the day I continued working on making pdfs out of the documents. As I previously stated the process is long and tedious and nothing has changed in that regard for today's blog. Overall, I have to make around 40 pdfs, and I made another 12 or so today.

Wednesday, July 22

Yesterday we took a tour of the nanoimaging lab in the morning. It was a very interesting lab but I found a noise that one of the machines emitted was very annoying. It was amazing to see that one of the chips cost around 500,000 dollars to make. That's amazing. After that, i got to work in my lab continuing the work on the many documents that I need to convert into pdfs. For lunch, went to the seminar and got free pizza, which is always nice. The presentation was so confusing and it really didn't make any sense. Right from the first slide of their powerpoint, I was lost. I don't think the group did a good enough job explaining what exactly they were doing. After that, I returned to my lab and continued work on the pdfs conversion. It is really long and tedious but other than that, its not too hard.

Tuesday, July 21

Today, I finished up work on the documents but the SUN computer was logged out so that's all I could do at that point. After talking to Mr. Easton and figuring out that I could be doing the pdfs on the other computer while the files were transferring, I began that long and grueling process. It takes a long time to do each one mostly because of the time spent loading each thing on photoshop. Other than lunchat crossroads, thats all I did today.