Navid,Thanks!  This is all good.  (I could hear Tim’s ‘breathing’ shift as I moved about ;)

On 1-May-09, at 1:13 AM, Navid Navab wrote:

Hello,Tim’s patches are running and both screens at the lab are augmented now. One with “falling bamboos” and the other with “metallic plates”. I am leaving my machine in the lab to test my patch’s reliability on a long run. Later I could transfer the computation to one of the lab machines/laptops. Feel free to excite the membranes tomorrow when you come in.

Great!  Compliments on livening the space.   Can you be sure to make a version + README instructions that can be launched by someone else in the Ozone group?

Your work should be documented on the Ozone WIKI.

Note: Eventually the membranes should be able to change their states from metal to wood, glass/etc according to the ozone-state-engine.

This would be a welcome advance from the phase change front.  I’m looking very much to transmuting wood to glass to breath to bamboo to metal!

(Relevant history: Largely metaphorical prototypes include Harry et al’s Thick/N (GaTech, 2004), X et al’s TinyOS water-ice/laughter-speech instruments (Ubicomp, 2003))

Patrick can you make sure that enough of the  activity in the demo area is optically visible to the cameras so that the Ozone system can respond?    We wrote the demo state topology assuming we could detect  approach to the fastfold.  And the system was using overhead camera tracking,   

Patrick or JS, can you test Ozone behavior?   If the cameras are not picking up enough in IR or visible, then we need to use an alternate sensing strategy.   I would say feed Navid’s contact sensors into the sensor bundles for storm  & calm states.   But Morgan is totally occupied for CCA so this will not be possible for May 2.   We should do this for May 8.

Cheers,

Xin Wei