Assignments for 12/8/10

Make Team

K+M: goal:
- animated track. animation done as in hw 8.
- working on reloadable hw 7 form

A+E: goal:
- work on displaying many tracks
- need to modify sketch
- work on making form robust

Question: will the project use an image of the compus map? Current answer: "not sure"
Team meeting Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

(Julia missing)
uses Hw 6 code
done in Javascript/AJAX
Current work demoed on 12/01. Can pick one track from javascript menu.
Goal:
- display different tracks
- selection based on/controlled by Javascript menu
- option page for picking different tracks: needs to be implemented for next Wed., but not necessarily functional.
Action Item for the team: setup a meeting time before next Wed.

Work on intersection of tracks.
Defined 13 feet as max distance needed for intersection.
Agreed that there are several ways to process tracks and discover intersections: math approach, and programming approach.
In a first step, team will use programming approach. Two for-loops for going through points of Track A and Track B and see if any of the points of A are less than 13 ft away from points of B.
Goal for next week:
- read kml files (probably two is sufficient)
- add extra points to file if necessary
- find 1 intersection point, or none
- algorithm works on the fly, on-line.
- algorithm might look something like:
  - 2 tracks are picked from the database, or are hard-coded in the program (not important) (php)
  - the 2 tracks are preprocessed (new points added) (php)
  - Intersection point is found (just 1 sufficient)
  - sketch show tracks and intersection
  - generate random paths using 2 tracks and intersection point. New paths are shown in different colors.

Meeting on Friday at 2:30 p.m.
Currently done
- can read multiple kml files into sketch
- need to specify file names in sketch
- Lindsey + RB working on form (recommended use of $_SESSION array).
- Julia P. working on Wiki
Goal for next week (12/8)
- get form working, and at least allow to pick major and get display of tracks of majors
- change kml data
  - add new field of just latitude, longitude, [time]
  - extract the date from the kml and store it in the data field of the SQL kmldata table
- all integrated
- will look at synchronizing the tracks so that they may not start at the same time.