Today, we made a powerpoint presentation on the Emission of a photon and it's journey through space. We were deciding if we were going to travel as a quanta of photons and how this would look. Then we decided that the photon is going to interact with certain type of stars.
We are going to show a neutron star, Red Giant and White Dwarf. We will show the magnetic field of the Neutron star and what this does to the photon. The Red Giant and White Dwarf will fling the photon around it.
After that, we will exit either a spiral or elliptical galaxy and enter The Milky Way galaxy. Into that we will then zoom in on our solar system and describe some of the planets. The photon will eventually find it's way into the Hubble Telescope and describe the Charge Coupled Devices(CCD) inside. Then we will Finish our presentation on this subject at least and offer something interactive.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
September 21
So, After an hour and forty five minutes of planning, we realized that we already had all our work done for the day the second Chris Fallon walked into the room. We figured out what we wanted the "life cycle of a star" part of the video to be about in detail and how long we wanted each part to be. We made a powerpoint presentation on this too.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
September 14, 2008 second week of school
Catching up on our latest endeavors...
Basic outline:
We've decided to combine the videos into one and have made a group decision to make the presentation interactive. Our plan is to start out with the formation of a star. Then, have the viewer choose what kind of star they want to be. With this we will provide information about the types of stars and their outcomes. Next, the viewer will become a photon/gamma ray/heat and able to choose where they want to go i.e. a galaxy, meteor, or other astronomical object.
The photon will then be direct towards earth due to forces of gravity acting on it. Once approaching earth, viewers will be able to determine what kind of detector they want the photon to enter. Whether it be a CCD, infared, or any other filtered detector. Here we will show an image from that kind of detector and explain how it works. Also, we will explain the importance of detectors and why people should care about them.
From here on out we need to finalize our ideas and actually start on making the presentation!! We'll try to keep more up to date with our progress.
Basic outline:
We've decided to combine the videos into one and have made a group decision to make the presentation interactive. Our plan is to start out with the formation of a star. Then, have the viewer choose what kind of star they want to be. With this we will provide information about the types of stars and their outcomes. Next, the viewer will become a photon/gamma ray/heat and able to choose where they want to go i.e. a galaxy, meteor, or other astronomical object.
The photon will then be direct towards earth due to forces of gravity acting on it. Once approaching earth, viewers will be able to determine what kind of detector they want the photon to enter. Whether it be a CCD, infared, or any other filtered detector. Here we will show an image from that kind of detector and explain how it works. Also, we will explain the importance of detectors and why people should care about them.
From here on out we need to finalize our ideas and actually start on making the presentation!! We'll try to keep more up to date with our progress.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
video updates
For the past few days we've been here we have been working a lot . Our newest decision is to turn our three movies into one ... To do this we are beginning a new story board and are catching everyone up on what we have been doing with each of the topics. Also in order to make the one video the best it can be we have decided to make a short interactive thing at the end of it. With this in place the audience will hopefully be able to go back to the objects covered in the video in order to get a closer look into it. Aside from this new idea we have been making great progress in google sketchup and luster. We are able to make objects in sketchup now and are getting to the point where we are learning how to put those objects into luster. Once we have this mastered our video will be ready to be made!!!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Day Camp contiued...
Last Day ( August 1) : Today we met in the morning and researched/finished our space mission projects.After we headed to an imaging science meeting and watched a power point presentation on imaging different things. When that was finished we went to our last lab of the week, RIDL and got a quick ten minute tour of the stuff inside it. A little later we met David Axon, who helped a lot with understanding black holes and their effect in the universe.We closed up the day with our "wonderful" power points which got us a lot of feedback and taught us a lot about how to present. It was a fun way to close up the long week of work.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Day Camp
Day one (Monday) : research on the presentation topics began and we researched 4 labs that we were going to visit the rest of the week. We met with Xanthe Matychak who helped a lot with the general idea of how to set up the actual shows. She suggested things like using metaphors in our videos and going to the museum to just watch what type of people come and visit. At the end of the day we closed up our research and chris tasber nicely started a big debate on colors . It was a fun way to end the day , not.
Day two (Tuesday) : Topics for the space mission projects were picked and research on photons/black holes/stars continued. We visited nano power lab in which we learned a lot of new knowledge. After that we went to coffee with Stefi Baum who helped a lot in understanding the topics themselves. When we were done talking to her we met back together and talked about our day closing up our last thoughts of the day.
Day three (Wednesday) : The actual research for the space mission projects began today. We started power points and got that project going so that it would be done on friday when we would present. After we researched a lot we went to the CCRG lab and learned about relativity and the speed of light. It was very interesting and we learned a lot. We met two professors today, Dr.Ninkov and Dr.Robinson, both helped a lot in knowing more about our topics of research.(Ninkov helped with detectors and Robinson helped with black holes) It was a busy day but we learned a lot.
Day four (Thursday) : Today we attempted to finish up all of our space mission research and put the final touches on our power points. After that it was off to the SMFL lab, in which we got to wear our fun white suits to go into the clean room. It was an interesting experience but we all laughed through it all. Later we met Don Figer who helped some with detectors and just getting us going with the presentations. At the end of the day we worked on story boards and just closed up all of our research for the rest of the day.
Day two (Tuesday) : Topics for the space mission projects were picked and research on photons/black holes/stars continued. We visited nano power lab in which we learned a lot of new knowledge. After that we went to coffee with Stefi Baum who helped a lot in understanding the topics themselves. When we were done talking to her we met back together and talked about our day closing up our last thoughts of the day.
Day three (Wednesday) : The actual research for the space mission projects began today. We started power points and got that project going so that it would be done on friday when we would present. After we researched a lot we went to the CCRG lab and learned about relativity and the speed of light. It was very interesting and we learned a lot. We met two professors today, Dr.Ninkov and Dr.Robinson, both helped a lot in knowing more about our topics of research.(Ninkov helped with detectors and Robinson helped with black holes) It was a busy day but we learned a lot.
Day four (Thursday) : Today we attempted to finish up all of our space mission research and put the final touches on our power points. After that it was off to the SMFL lab, in which we got to wear our fun white suits to go into the clean room. It was an interesting experience but we all laughed through it all. Later we met Don Figer who helped some with detectors and just getting us going with the presentations. At the end of the day we worked on story boards and just closed up all of our research for the rest of the day.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
thursday july 24th
Today we split up into three groups and talked to Joe about the programming, Chris Anderson about the web page and Zosimo about the sphere and his progress on it. After talking to all three of them we gained a lot more knowledge to help us move forward. We also did some more general research on things like detectors and science on a sphere. We will hopefully be able to use all the knowledge gained today in the future to help our project be the best it can be!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
updates
July 15 2008
As of now we are finally getting the wheels spinning to start programming and researching. We are trying to get into the science center so we can see where the immersive cube will be and what we will be working with. Our main job though, is to research our three topics for our presentations (black holes, life of a photon, and an interactive presentation). A few of our members are learning how to use the Luster program which will allow us to create these presentations.
During today's meeting we discussed fundraising options so we can utilize certain facilities and be able to provide ourselves with any needed materials. Our goals for Thursday are to get into full swing with research and start to look at the presentation aspect as a whole. There is still some confusion with what light actually is and how it operates but we're getting around it. Now all we are trying to do is learn about many of the faculty around RIT that can help us and to ask them any specific questions that might be able to help us during our research.
As of now we are finally getting the wheels spinning to start programming and researching. We are trying to get into the science center so we can see where the immersive cube will be and what we will be working with. Our main job though, is to research our three topics for our presentations (black holes, life of a photon, and an interactive presentation). A few of our members are learning how to use the Luster program which will allow us to create these presentations.
During today's meeting we discussed fundraising options so we can utilize certain facilities and be able to provide ourselves with any needed materials. Our goals for Thursday are to get into full swing with research and start to look at the presentation aspect as a whole. There is still some confusion with what light actually is and how it operates but we're getting around it. Now all we are trying to do is learn about many of the faculty around RIT that can help us and to ask them any specific questions that might be able to help us during our research.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
1:00- people came in over the course of the hour, we worked on using five seperate screens to do tasks, we filled out surveys of our knowledge of science.
2:00- the team discussed our options regarding how we were going to make the videos andwhat topics they would be about.
3:00- Lauren and Chelsea finally arrived with gold fish and merriment was had by all. We then discussed how and when we would go to the RMSC observatory to see what our facilities where.
4:00- we were taught how to use the video rendering software, Luster.
5:30- people started to go home.
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