ok, ladies and gents. It is the end of the day, and I feel way more accomplished than I did yesterday; this time I got stuff working. Today, I altered the GUI so that I can view two different views. The first view show a 3d plot of the Flock of Birds data. The second view show 6 different 2D plots. It shows the x vs y, x vs z, y vs z, time vs x, time vs y, and time vs z. I know this will be very useful in the days to come.

Ok, ladies and gents. Yesterday I wasted so much time trying to get the GUI to look correctly, and at the end of the day I failed. I am not wasting no more time with it. I will just do what I can. Thats all I can say for now since the GUI is the only thing I worked on. Peace

Ok, ladies and gents. Yesterday, I successfully exported flock of birds data to a file, but it took longer than I expected. I had previously done this before this year's spring semester, but I could not remember how I did it. So it took me most of the day, in which I wasted most of my time. Anyway, Peschel told me this great idea. He said I should make planes of references based on the a averages of the graphs. The graph of interest will be easier to comprehend if planes of references in the x, y, and z axis. I actually created it, but the system significantly slows down and I can not see through it. I'll keep working on it.

ok, ladies and gents. So today, I added more functions to my code so that I can find the standard deviation for each dimension, i.e. x, y, and z. The next thing on my list of things to do is to a csv file of the data so Peschel can use Excel to look at the data "statiscally." I will not be able to do it today because it is ....4:24pm and I am going to leave at 4:45 so I can go to the Fed ex to mail some stuff and take pictures. Peace out.

Ok, ladies and gents. I most definitely forgot to post on thursday and friday...so I'll give a brief summary on those days. Thursday, I was able to get the drop down menus to work, all four of them. This means that I can choose a specific flock of birds xml file to graph, and after, I attached listeners to the menus so that when the user hits "ok" button the program will graph the file immediately. At first I thought I had some bugs because I got some wacky looking graphs, but then Hammond came in and looked at it at a different perspective. Btw, she was really excited, overzealous even. I felt like I accomplished something by performing the user study and creating a program to visualize the data, but as excited as Hammond was it seemed like she was the one programming lol. Anyway, Hammond looked at the line plotted graph and the change the orientation of it, then I saw that you could see what was drawn by the user study participants using the flock of birds system. Pretty amazing. Some of it is hard to distinguish at times, though. Anyway, hasta luego.

Ok, ladies and gents. Yesterday, I realized that it was harder than I thought to create a drop down menu to select different methods, users, and trial for a specific data file. The reason is that the data file does not give enough information within it, or its in different places, so its harder to pull out the data. Peschel thinks I should just do what I can right now, and later he will alter the how Flock of Birds system outputs its data so it will be easier to pull out vital info next time around. That means, all the work i am currently doing to "do what I can" will be for naught because I will have to change the code to work for the different format of the data file. I guess I do not mind so much because doing "what i can" has lead to a bad design and hectic code. Anyway, so far I got two of the drop down menu to work, now its time for the others. Hasta luego.

Ok, ladies and gents. Since I finished the XML parsing, I can use the extracted data and place it in a 3D plotting system. So I was working on a JMathTool tutorial and trying to alter it so that I can apply it to my research. Currently, I am trying to make a GUI window where I can select any user, with any trial, and any method to find the specific data file from the user study. So, I am bout to get to work so I will see you later.