July 8

My second day at RIT is coming to a close. Im still adjusting but at least now it feels like I have something to do around here. I am officially working in the 3D digital immersion project. We got the big balloon in the mail today so my first task was to get that and blow it up. Then we built a stand out of PVC pipes to keep the 6 foot diameter sphere off the ground and from rolling around. That took most of the morning, along with the astronomy coffee break and lunch break. Then at two we had a team meeting about the 3D stuff, and showed the sphere and stand to Jake. After that we hooked up one of the projectors to try and see how good or bad the image was on the sphere. Its surprisingly good, except the edges which are really distorted, but with a little tampering with either the graphics card or the display program itself we should be able to make it project better. A few of the undergrad students are looking into the formulas and the programming necessary to make this thing work. At the very least it should be challenging. Well the lights just turned off in the room which means I have been sitting in front of this lap top too long, better get up and do something!!