Day Eighteen

Today, we helped the remote sensing department set up and move around targets. It was nice to get out of the lab and out into the sunshine!

:)

Day Seventeen

Today, I coerced Madeleine into getting a Facebook. Just a couple minutes after some intensive Facebook-friendly, Facebook sent her a message saying that she was being "annoying" and basically a stalker. And so now she can't add any more friends and we're sad.

Today, we cropped more samples and ran them through IDL and pasted the numbers into excel.

And that is all.

Day Sixteen

This is a little irrelevant, but I checked some other interns' pages and I guess some of us have been having so much fun that we've lost track of the days. Time flies when you're having fun! Me, Sean, Billy, and Amy think that today was the sixteenth day. Ethan, Kevin, and Luke think today was the fifteenth day. Naba, Cicely, Reiner, Ben, Ory, Toni, Rebecca, Octavia, and Madeleine were smart enough to use the date, not the day, to post their blogs.

I just counted, and today is indeed the sixteenth day. (Yay for me, sean, billy, and amy!) Of course, perhaps some people took a day off and is only counting working days. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. :)

Day Sixteen

I noticed that practically no one else blogged about the blindness simulation this morning....

Anyway, we were left in a dark room for a couple minutes, then we were taken out on a quick walk in the bright building with one eye covered. When we went back into the dark room, we found that we were partially blind. And our task was to explain this.

Well to be perfectly honest, I made some sad attempts to explain it myself (I AM in, after all, eye imaging and should therefore know something or other about eyes...), but all I could come up with (after looking through my notes) is that our eyes accommodated to the darkness (which is when your optical lens changes shape to focus under different situations). After leaving the dark room (with one eye still accommodated to the darkness since that eye was covered), the non-covered eye accommodated to the light during our walk. Upon returning to the dark room and opening the covered eye, each eye sent conflicting impulses to the brain (perhaps due to the differences in contrast and brightness) and being unable to process the information, we were rendered temporarily blind. Oh, and I believe the pupils must be vastly different sizes as well (larger in the covered eye, smaller in the non-covered eye), which may or may not have had some part in the simulation.

And even though that actually sounds somewhat legitimate, I have to disclaim any truth or fact in the above. I tried google-ing it, but I couldn't find a good phrase to type in. Apparently

"dark room light room blind"

"temporarily blind simulation dark light"

"rit cis weird blind simulation thing"

does not yield any helpful results.

Day Fifteen

Today, I ran the target paint samples through the macbeth-gretag machine in three separate trials to get the spectral reflectances which I saved as .txt files which I then averaged together in excel and saved as .csv files which I then renamed into .txt files and ran through the SR to CIELAB IDL program that Joel wrote....and for some reason this sounds quite familiar because I think I just blogged about doing this a couple days ago. We tend to do some pretty repetitive stuff. :)

Day Fourteen

I think I forgot to swipe out today. Oops.

Day Thirteen

Today, I was ridiculously productive. We did what we usually do- excel work, taking photographs, and running things through IDL...but we did a lot of it today.

I always wonder who actually reads this. I know us interns love to stalk each other up and that Joe and Bob read our blogs, but the sheer idea that other strangers read this makes me want to do a better job of blogging. But that probably won't happen :)

It's 5:21, which is just about time to leave.

Peace out.