Finished!

So after finally exporting all of our images that we have taken on our fundus, today marked our last day of collecting data. We have run all of our pictures through IDL and now all we have to do is compare the data we've collected over time and finish our presentation!

White and Blue

So Helen and I came across a fatal error in our experiment. When we measured the spectral reflectances of all of the colors, for some reason our blue came up with the same LAB values as the color white as opposed to blue. This threw off our whole data making us think that the cameras were terrible at taking pictures of our blue sample when really someone must have measured the sample wrong in the first place. I won't mention names but I know it wasn't me for I have no clue how to work the photospectrometer...

Macbeth Meets Avatar

Today was a pretty eventful day for it being a friday. I guess the most exciting thing was getting a 3d image of me taken for a movie in the afternoon. But another extremely exciting thing that happened was that today our beloved Macbeth actually decided to work! Yay!

iMovie Fail

Today Helen and I were bestowed with one simple task: To make a movie for our final presentation. Seems pretty simple right? If anything we should have assumed that it would go about the same as the last movie we made for CIS which did not bode well. It turns out that only one computer on this whole campus could support our movie files and could translate them into a movie. Trust me, we looked ALL over campus (color, 76, building 9) in a search for a computer that had a compatible imovie we could use. The computer we found, however, was located in a very populated computer lab in 76 which was a problem since we wanted to create voiceovers for our movie. It took about six hours, but I am proud to say that at 4:08 we finally have a completed movie about our beloved fundus cameras

Same Old, Same Old...

Today was just another ordinary day in color science. We processed the pictures we took yesterday through IDL and found the deltas between the l a and b values like usual...

Goniospectrophotometer...

Today we tried to use the above mentioned machine (which I guess is really the true name of our beloved macbeth) but yet again we were locked outside of the building with no Joel to let us in (such a bad boss I know...). Since we were denied, we thought it fit to make a video of us using the fundus cameras for our final presentations to find that they had waxed the floors and moved all of the cameras into different positions. Who knew a microscope could weigh so much? After finally rearranging all of the cameras we took a good 200 pictures of our samples using the Canon and Topcon which we will have the pleasure of running through IDL tomorrow.I hope it won't take as long as it sounds...

WORST DAY EVER!!!

So it was bound to happen... Helen and I had pretty much the most torturous day that we could possibly imagine. For me I knew my day was doomed from the start as I awoke at 2:30 am to a bat flying around my ceiling and my untimeliness when it came to me getting ready. But now back to work... The first setback that we endured was that our precious Macbeth machine (whose real scientific name I do not know) failed to recognize a white sample, and so we could not compare any of our data to a standard. After that Helen and I found it fitting to treat ourselves to some Cheesecake Factory for lunch, but sadly this turned out to be more of a jinx than a relaxation technique. Upon returning back to campus it was time for Helen and I to experiment with our laser show which meant one thing: MATLAB!!The adorable Rodney showed us how to use the equipment but unfortunately none of what he showed us actually worked and had an impact on the lights. So what was Joel's bright idea to help us? Strand us ALONE in a dark cave with a giant computer screen until we figured out just what we were supposed to be doing. Things at first actually worked out well for two girls who aren't too tech savvy but things quickly went downhill. The lights started to change randomly to the point which we felt that we would have to resuscitate each other from seizures. We had finally figured out how to make 8 out of 9 lights turn to black to alleviate our crushing headaches after THREE hours, but we just could not figure out how to change that one last red light to black. We decided to give up but by then the affects of that one dastardly red light had already set in. It was as if the lights were spewing laughing gas, or something else which I will not mention, as Helen and I could not control our laughter and our vocabulary. Soon we had given up and just decided to take a nap and hoped by some chance the light would be gone by the time we woke up. Needless to say that did not happen and our eyes were so desperate to close due to staring at a single red light for what seemed like all of eternity. It took us a good twenty minutes just for Helen and I to walk back to 76 from the color building, which is normally a 7 minute walk. I am totally dreading actually trying to make this project work after going through what I went through today...