July 9

Today was much busier than yesterday. I changed my focus from the sphere project in the 3D digital immersion lab to a project analyzing UV photos of galaxies. Because the main project with the sphere was to figure out how to project a good image onto it, and I do not have a good understanding of the technical programming involved in making this modification, I felt a little useless. So I talked to Jake about it and he was OK with me switching projects, at least for the time being. After that I spent most of the afternoon downloading the UV images of 20 galaxies from the Galex site. Four of the galaxies were missing, but the other 16 had good images so I downloaded those, which took a while. In the midst of that we had our daily coffee break, which was rather quiet, nobody really has a lot to say that early in the morning. I finished the downloads before we left for lunch around one. Then when we came back from the Crossroads I began reformatting the images so that I can work with them. Using the PuTTy unix app I untared all the images and then unzipped them, which sounds simple but is really rather time consuming because you have to do each galaxy one at a time. Now I am about to begin actually viewing and scaling the images, but chances are I wont get much headway before we have our meeting and leave. Tomorrow should prove to be a little more rewarding.