RIT Summer Internship Blog

Today was the final full work day!!!!! During the morning meeting we talked about the program and how it could be made better. After that, Paige and I watched Peter and Ashley's presentations and gave them some feedback. We looked at Roger's data for the rest of the morning until lunch time. We watched Aditi and Titus' presentations during the afternoon.

There was no morning meeting today, instead we went through everyone's presentations up until lunch time. Mine and Paige's presentation was exactly 15 minutes and I think we did a nice job. I feel pretty good about it. I spent most of the afternoon looking at more C73 files Roger gave us. Nothing too exciting happened later in the day, just a standard time with my favorite partner. I do have a few results from the C73 images but they're the same for every file. PCA isn't doing much for me these days, SAM and ICA have been my best results. SAM Overlay with Int. Stretching ICA Result of Band 3

The morning meeting was pretty relaxed, people turned in their presentations. Paige and I are still making some last minute changes to ours. The morning was spent editing the presentation and then we gave another practice one in the auditorium. It was 17 and a half minutes this time so we added enough information in. We added things in during lunch. We found Roger so I could get his hard drive and finish downloading more C73 files to work on for the next two days. I think we've done a really good job with our presentation. I'm proud of the results. We finished it around 2 and gave it to Joe. The rest of the day we spent making image cubes for Roger and putting together results for Todd Hanneken. Tomorrow we have the run-throughs of our presentations in the morning. I'm really excited to stutter in front of everyone!!!! I'll post about it tomorrow.

Today was the fastest morning meeting ever. Matt handed out papers and then we all got to work. I worked on Roger's data for the morning. Yesterday Paige and I put together another folder of results for him so today was just finishing the final three files. I finished the files during lunch so Paige and I got more things from Roger. We did another practice presentation with Matt and Joe. We got some good notes and critiques. The presentation is just going to keep being updated, likely up until Wednesday night. Today's run through was even shorter than last time so we added a few more slides, including an acknowledgement slide. I included Roger, Dave, Robert/Bob, and Todd Hanneken. We're probably going to add more people to it but that list is a good start. I helped David Lewis with some stuff, mainly finding things in a lab. It was better than nothing. Monday I'm going to help him set up his experiment, I'm pretty thrilled.

During the morning meeting we discussed the final presentations and what some people did yesterday. After the meeting we talked to Dave about a few things we wanted to add. I think Paige and I are just about done with the presentation but I'm not 100% sure about that. Personally, I think it's a pretty good presentation. We got an email from Robert/Bob complimenting us on our blogs, I'm pretty thrilled to know that he took the time to see what we're up to. In his email he also mentioned a few things about different maps at the Bodleian. I'm not sure what they are but he attached them to the email so I might as well take a look at them. I spent the better part of my day working with Roger's data. It's not going into the presentation but the results are still kind of neat. I keep forgetting to save them as JPEGs but today was the day that I actually did.

Today was Joe's first day back since last Monday. The morning meeting was pretty standard, everyone talked about how their project/presentation is coming along. After that Paige and I made some critiques to our presentation. Our current dilemma is that we want to use an overlay image of the three main types of green while Dave wants us to use an inverse color images of the entire map, still using green.  We tried to set up our presentation in the auditorium but it didn't work the first time we tried. We spent the better half of the morning working on new data Dave had given us a few days before. I'm not 100% sure about what any of it is but it's kind of cool. We did a run through of our presentation before lunch and we were under 11 minutes so that's good and also kind of bad. We just need to explain things more. At about 1 Paige and I had a video call with Robert/Bob, the guy who gave us all the questions for the Selden Map. It was really Dave and Di talking and us

David Lewis really sparked up the morning meeting today. He brought in his projects from when he was an intern in 2014. Matt and David Lewis gave me and Paige notes for our presentation after we ran through it for them. Anjana was in the room too but I don't think she had too much to say. Dave and Roger came in during the morning so we could give another practice presentation to them.We decided to just run through it instead. The rest of the day was spent adding explanations to images and deciding who says what. Paige is remaking her massive map she stitched together from the VNIR images but this time it's going to be inverse colors. I think after that's done then our final days will be spent practicing the presentation.

We actually finished all 12 outlines today!! It was thrilling. Paige and I have been cutting our 65 page presentation down to, what is now a 32 page one. Dave and David Lewis still think we need to cut it down and I'm upset about it. 15 minutes isn't enough time to explain everything we've done these past few weeks and it's sad that all of our work isn't going to be displayed. There isn't a whole lot to be said about today, other than we worked on our presentation. Tomorrow we're giving a practice presentation tomorrow with Dave and Roger. That will probably be most of my blog tomorrow.

I'm sorry about the late blog post but I've been quite busy today. The group read mine and Paige's outline during the morning meeting. She keeps telling me I don't contribute and that I'm useless but insists that I explain the outline and answer questions so I'd like an explanation about that, Paige. This morning we worked on our presentation mostly. We put together slides and got images ready. My best friend was on campus today for a college and major exposition or whatever the program is so we got lunch and I told her all about the internship and the wonderful people I've met. I got very into detail about the Lunch Bunch, I was very excited to tell her all about them. I also told her about my project and Paige, Dave, and Roger. After she left I went back inside and worked a little more on the presentation. We don't have as much data for the palimpsest as we did for the Selden Map so that section is going to be much shorter, or at least it is for now. I

During the morning meeting we went over a few more abstracts and Matt asked some trick questions about them. We briefly talked about the symposium tomorrow but unfortunately, I can't go. Paige and I are getting through the data Roger gave us and we have decent results for them. They're almost presentation worthy. I've been working on the Ambrosiana/Jubilees section, mostly the introductory slides until we decide what we want to put in. We're waiting for a response from Todd Hanneken, the guy who gave us the project, to tell us the significance of the palimpsest and if there is any particular reason he wants us to work on it. I got a short answer from Roger and it was "because Todd wanted you to" but I know that there is more behind it. Paige has some really good results and I think that our presentation will be mostly about the Selden Map, there's a lot more information about it and we were asked to do less with the Jubilees. Matt came in and we had a soli

The morning meeting was standard, we did a few more outlines and some people gave feedback. Paige was back today and I was so happy to see her, I am no longer alone!!! She has been making image cubes all day while I got some useful results, finally. Five of us went to see Chris Gloudeman's presentation on the third floor in room 3215. He leaves for home on Saturday and I'm really sad to see him go. At least David Lewis is back from Chicago. I started putting our final presentation together and it's not half bad. I took out the insignificant slides and put in a few about the Jubilees and Ambrosiana Library. We're trying to get it down to about 50 slides so we'll have to make some tough decisions about what to cut. The data Roger gave us Amb_C73_001-004 are all really good. The narrowbands show some good information but the fluorescence doesn't have much on it.

The morning meeting wasn't too long. We went over two outlines and then we were cut loose. I spend my morning making image cubes and calibrating them just to be able to look at images correctly. My afternoon has consisted of puzzles and loading bars. I have gotten a few results but not all of them are useful. I have ran PCI, PCA, and SAM on two sections and there results haven't been promising. I knew that the first section I'm working on didn't have a lot of information so I'm not too concerned. After I get past the first few files then I'll have things I can use. Paige is back tomorrow so I'll ask her what she thinks about the outline and then we can start piecing our presentation together. I'm thrilled to see her, it's been so lonely without her. It's just been me and my computer.. and also the few results I have. Here is one of my useless results along with a semi useful one. I am yet to find one that is actually good but I will by the end