Paula just introduced me to this site where you can mark all the countries you visited, and you can see what percentage of the world you visited. Im on 10%. Long way to go.
This has been one long, and interesting day
I finally got the code part of my project done. Though I still need to finish testing it, it looks like its all good. I had spent all yesterday developing the equations in Maple. I wont bore you with the math but there sure was a lot of it. I ended up with 3 full pages of math Luckily with some export and text replacement I could incorporate it into my python code. Then came the real hard part
I end up with an equation with my variable to the power of 8. Apparently there is no closed form solution for equations with a power greater then 4. Which leaves me with numerical technique. If your thinking what the? well your where I was this morning. Luckly google saved the day. What on earth did I do before google. There are ways to solve this given a range of numbers to look at, or a starting estimate. Both of which I could give. Scipy has some implementation to do that. So that was finally done. Now that I can find in focal length Y value, I finally could complete the whole calibration on the fly.
Amazing how two days of head scratching and math can be summed up by a few lines.
Then Paula got home, we had diner and I got IMed to come play some wow, which I just started doing again. It was fun, as it usually is.
Somewhere in there I also managed to learn how to fix the boot record for windows. I was removing linux from Paula’s computer and while removing grub things went wrong and the windows partition just wouldn’t boot. In come Are, which is one of the best IT guys I know. I really think there is very little he doesn’t know about anything tech.
I wanted to make a longer post, but its late, and I’m a bit, eh, tipsy, so this will have to do.
Good night
I just got back from a week vacation, which ill write about in my next post, but for now, this is a great video i cam across while updating on the tech news of the last week
Saturday I mailed my pre-definitive version of my thesis and I am very happy about tit. Not so much my work, which i think is ok, but that I’m almost done. It has been so long coming and I’m finally seeing the end. After being a for so many years in the university I’m really fed up with it. Its time for me to do some non academic work, with some finished product to see.
I love studying, but I also like having something to show for my work. I know ill get back to the bench, but for now its time to stop.
The last few days I have been making great progress on my thesis. Things are finally starting to fall into their place and the pace is great. I managed to solve some weird problems and I am now at the point where the difference between the calculated and the measured matrix is practically zero. that is, when projecting using the both matrices, the relation between both projections is 1.00008, which is great. Also while projecting i get a max of 2.3 pixel error and an average of 0.8 which is totally acceptable for such an early stage. All this advancement sure makes me feel good. Not that I intend to keep going with the University. It’s been enough for now, I really am looking forward to doing some more projects.
Which brings me to Joost. Still no word from them. I guess its normal, I should expect a week or two, but I really would like to know if i get a shot at working for them. the more i think of it, the more I like the idea. I guess Ill just have to wait and see.
And now its time for me to get back into my Kruppa’s equation explicit form development. which is the last thing I still need to program.