Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Results start showing..

The day started with testing the switching of markers. After some more refinement, everything worked fine! Here is an example of the test-string "peren gaat goed" [movie].

Of course there remain some small, real-world problems. The marker-holder isn't perfect, and the pen sometimes starts dragging the paper along, but with a little help (holding on to them ourselves, lowering the canvas) this shouldn't be too much of a problem.

To make a real nice, extensive parser, a collection of if-statements clearly is not enough. For all practical purposes, we will keep on using them in this project. Future extensions should use, maybe a look-up table, and some kind of ontology to automate the linking of shapes and colours. This is the drawing created based on the string "oh, how frustrating love is" (as shown wednesday).

We filled the rest of the day with adding to the lab book and writing more shapes java-code. It proved to require quite some patient work. See below for a picture of the design process. And then, there was sun! In the sun, we met the people who wrote the code last year. The were apparently pleasantly surprised by our subject, and the reuse of their code, which in turn was nice for us to hear.