Work Log Summer 2002 Joseph O'Rourke Heather Dyson Emily Zaehring Becky Alexander
Sonya Nikolova Melody Donoso Beenish Chaudry Monta Lertpachin

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

This is a web log in the form of a web page that depicts the daily activities during the summer while working under Joseph O'Rourke.
Here is my part of the project abstract, in the form of a MSWord document.

Week 1: Monday, May 20 - Friday, May 24

Monday, May 20
Monta was working on cleaning up image on Grayson's Theorem(?) in Illustrator.
Work on getting screen captures involving a Robot Arm game, available here.The goal was to get a screen capture of an intermediate step between the beginning and solution. The game offered an animated solution, but moved too quickly to get a screen capture of the intermediate step. I played the game by hand to get the intermediate steps.
Other tasks: find examples of unfolding boxes.

Tuesday, May 21
Because an example that highlighted the use of a theorem was needed, we worked on screen captures of the Robot Arm game again. This time, altered the coordinates stored in the program to start the game at intermediate stage.
Continued on with finding unfolding boxes, this time concentrated on origami.
Other tasks: get a $150 printer from computer store.

Wednesday, May 22
Work on flexible Polyhedra. Monta worked on getting an image such that a band created by an algorithm around a polyhedra was visible.
I was working on finding a way to view VRML, in order to find a way to view the images here.Found Cortona, which worked for purposes of viewing VRML.
Other: Melody and Monta made out of paper Connelly and Stephen models. These models did not do a good job of demonstrating how it flexes.

Thursday, May 23
Added names to the Summer Research projects for 2002 on the CS web page.
I started on my own web log.
Started on unfolded Steffen model in Adobe Illustrator.

Friday, May 24
Continued and finished working on unfolded Steffen model in Adobe Illustrator. Added numbers for dimensions. Added letters for corresponding edges. Added dotted lines to indicate valley folds.
Started working on the folded Steffen model, based on image found here. Adjusting dotted lines to make the overall shape visible.

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