Tuesday, August 05, 2003
i miss you guys!!!!
Friday, August 01, 2003
my patchwork is still on my moo, but my monster is on my web page.
Today is my last day at camp. I had so much fun. I really don't want to leave. Everyone be safe! Love, Chrissy
Thank You
I would like to say thank you to our Digital Directions teachers, Tanya and Nadja. You guys were great teachers and were very helpful. Thanks for everything.
Do You Remember
- how Gwen already knew how to do everything in class
- Nadja calling Rabiyah Raa-bee-yah
- Tanya telling everyone to "please save your work"
- Terrence talking all low and being the only boy in class
- Clara always making a comment about something
- Nadja also being happy
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Chrissy,
Heads up!! Your paper chase, AI & Communities research, and thoughful organic/artificial comments were great!
Nadja :)
Heads up!! Your paper chase, AI & Communities research, and thoughful organic/artificial comments were great!
Nadja :)
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
For my final project, I decided to do a digital collage. I wanted to do a digital collage, because I enjoyed making them the most. At first, when I first learned to use PhotoShop, I didn't really like it. I was really bad at it. But now, I've gotten alot better at using PhotoShop, and I enjoy using it.
The most compelling aspect of PhotoShop to me is how the final outcome looks. You take five different pictures and turn it into one. I love the way you can place any picture into any background you want, and then add different special effects to make it look unique and complex. That is so compelling to me.
Ecce Puer by James Joyce is the poem I decided to make my collage of. Ecce Puer is about the continuation of generations. I symbolized this through my collage. My background is a picture of clouds. To get the extra glassy look that it has, I used a glass fliter and also added a Gaussian blur to it. I decided to use the glass blur because the word glass is used in the poem.
This poem is all about how someone feels. Their thoughts inside their head. To symbolize this, I put the closed eyes at the bottom of the collage, instead of at the top or in the middle. Now when you look at it, you can understand the he is thinking of these events. The clouds are even shaped in a way, so you can see a face and thought in the brain.
I placed the picture of the father holding up his son in front of his head because, that is his main focus. He is thinking of his wonderful creation that he has created. The image has a 78% opacity. I did this bercause it is just a thought. Thoughts are nver fully clear.
In the right top corner, there is a image of an old man. He is watching over the young father and child. He is the young father's father. He is further into the clouds, because he is in heaven. The opacity in this picture is 63%.
My last picture is a picture of a tree. It is suppose to represent generation. Like the tree of life. The branches go in a circle to represent the circle of life. Continuation of the generation. I placed this more into his thought and out of the clouds,because it is a regular to think about your family. This image has a 58% opacity.
I also added text to my collage. I chose 3 sentences, that are from the poem, that stood out to me. "Calm in his cradle," has a text twig on it. I selected the flag text to make it swirve like that, as well as, doing some free transforming.
The second text says, "unclose his eye." To get this text to look stretched out, I gave it a wind filter. I really liked the way it looked, so I did the same for the the text that says, "forgive your son." The forgive you son text is turned veritcally. I did this by using the free tranforming action and turned it vertically. This text has a 69% opacity.
There is a big difference between this collage and my first collage. My first collage was very dark. This one is much lighter. I think this collage has much more meaning towards the poem, than my first collage. Eventhough, I spent alot more time on my first collage, I like my new collage better Now that I understand the PhotoShop program, the process was much more faster and easier. I enjoyed making my final project!
The most compelling aspect of PhotoShop to me is how the final outcome looks. You take five different pictures and turn it into one. I love the way you can place any picture into any background you want, and then add different special effects to make it look unique and complex. That is so compelling to me.
Ecce Puer by James Joyce is the poem I decided to make my collage of. Ecce Puer is about the continuation of generations. I symbolized this through my collage. My background is a picture of clouds. To get the extra glassy look that it has, I used a glass fliter and also added a Gaussian blur to it. I decided to use the glass blur because the word glass is used in the poem.
This poem is all about how someone feels. Their thoughts inside their head. To symbolize this, I put the closed eyes at the bottom of the collage, instead of at the top or in the middle. Now when you look at it, you can understand the he is thinking of these events. The clouds are even shaped in a way, so you can see a face and thought in the brain.
I placed the picture of the father holding up his son in front of his head because, that is his main focus. He is thinking of his wonderful creation that he has created. The image has a 78% opacity. I did this bercause it is just a thought. Thoughts are nver fully clear.
In the right top corner, there is a image of an old man. He is watching over the young father and child. He is the young father's father. He is further into the clouds, because he is in heaven. The opacity in this picture is 63%.
My last picture is a picture of a tree. It is suppose to represent generation. Like the tree of life. The branches go in a circle to represent the circle of life. Continuation of the generation. I placed this more into his thought and out of the clouds,because it is a regular to think about your family. This image has a 58% opacity.
I also added text to my collage. I chose 3 sentences, that are from the poem, that stood out to me. "Calm in his cradle," has a text twig on it. I selected the flag text to make it swirve like that, as well as, doing some free transforming.
The second text says, "unclose his eye." To get this text to look stretched out, I gave it a wind filter. I really liked the way it looked, so I did the same for the the text that says, "forgive your son." The forgive you son text is turned veritcally. I did this by using the free tranforming action and turned it vertically. This text has a 69% opacity.
There is a big difference between this collage and my first collage. My first collage was very dark. This one is much lighter. I think this collage has much more meaning towards the poem, than my first collage. Eventhough, I spent alot more time on my first collage, I like my new collage better Now that I understand the PhotoShop program, the process was much more faster and easier. I enjoyed making my final project!
1. title
2. innovation description
3. one sentence that captures the author's main point
4. three pieves of evidence that supports the author's main point
Chrissy Hines is a new scientist who has created a new chemical mixture to purify water. The new mixture, named Bye By, is suppose to wipe out any and all diseases, germs, or organic gunk in the water. Allgood states that after testing this product with many different water samples, it proved that the water was all cleansed. What they don't know about Bye By is that it could kill you in the long run.
Bye By was made to purify nasty waters and kills everything. The chemicals can also even fight off any diseases that are in your body. But, after researching the Bye By pill, I have found that if you do not have any germs or diseases in your body, the chemicals will start to eat through your body.
Bye By is made of chemicals like blench, chlorine, and sigine. Sigine is a new chemical that is put into poison to kill insects and animals. If a human takes in too much sigine they can die. Many do not know this, or even care, since they have fresh clean water to drink. Also, if you use the Bye By pill to purify your water in the heat, the chemical balance in the water can be corrupted. This can cause minerals to stay in the water and no purification. Many also don't know, that if you place more than one pill in the water, all chemicals will remain in the water.
Bye By is a great new innovation that has wonderful uses in today's world, but if I were you, I would say bye bye to Bye By.
2. innovation description
3. one sentence that captures the author's main point
4. three pieves of evidence that supports the author's main point
Say Bye to Bye By
Chrissy Hines is a new scientist who has created a new chemical mixture to purify water. The new mixture, named Bye By, is suppose to wipe out any and all diseases, germs, or organic gunk in the water. Allgood states that after testing this product with many different water samples, it proved that the water was all cleansed. What they don't know about Bye By is that it could kill you in the long run.
Bye By was made to purify nasty waters and kills everything. The chemicals can also even fight off any diseases that are in your body. But, after researching the Bye By pill, I have found that if you do not have any germs or diseases in your body, the chemicals will start to eat through your body.
Bye By is made of chemicals like blench, chlorine, and sigine. Sigine is a new chemical that is put into poison to kill insects and animals. If a human takes in too much sigine they can die. Many do not know this, or even care, since they have fresh clean water to drink. Also, if you use the Bye By pill to purify your water in the heat, the chemical balance in the water can be corrupted. This can cause minerals to stay in the water and no purification. Many also don't know, that if you place more than one pill in the water, all chemicals will remain in the water.
Bye By is a great new innovation that has wonderful uses in today's world, but if I were you, I would say bye bye to Bye By.
Intelligent Agents that I visted were ALICE and ELIZA. I enjoyed the conversation with ALICE more than the conversation I had with ELIZA. ELIZA asked too many questions and she would not answer my questions. She seemed more like a robot. ALICE is a fun robot to talk to. She answered all my questions and had some funny responses. She was more modern than ELIZA. She used slang at times, and she could keep a good conversation. She remembered many facts about me, like what my name was, my age, my height, and things that I liked. I only stayed in ELIZA's room for about 3 minutes. I was chatting with ALICE for about 20 minutes.
A 3D site I visited was called digital space RATAVA'S LINE. I didn't really enjoy this site. I didn't understand it at all. This is a fashion site, I think. The 3D clothing that was shown was really ugly to me.
I think I liked the gaming the best. I had at of fun playing the games. I did puzzles, word searches, played cards, and many other fun action games. Some of the games were in 3D and some of them weren't. This was my favorite because I had interaction with it. It wasn't me just talking to a robot or anything. It was just me playing on the computer. It was lots of fun!
I also really like yahoo chat. Its fun to talk in chatrooms!
A 3D site I visited was called digital space RATAVA'S LINE. I didn't really enjoy this site. I didn't understand it at all. This is a fashion site, I think. The 3D clothing that was shown was really ugly to me.
I think I liked the gaming the best. I had at of fun playing the games. I did puzzles, word searches, played cards, and many other fun action games. Some of the games were in 3D and some of them weren't. This was my favorite because I had interaction with it. It wasn't me just talking to a robot or anything. It was just me playing on the computer. It was lots of fun!
I also really like yahoo chat. Its fun to talk in chatrooms!
Information on Robots that can smell and show emotion.
At this website, it talks about a new robot called the emtional machine. Like ants following their own pheromone trails back home, robots can be fitted with special quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors to detect and follow specific chemicals along the ground. With the ability to sense particular odours in this way, the applications of robots will stretch yet further. For example, swarms of robots could move together without colliding by avoiding the "smell" of their neighbour.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/robo/emotional.htm
This website is about robots sense of smell . Gas sensor systems known as "electronic noses" have been widely used under laboratory conditions, for food analysis, but so far there have been few applications on mobile platforms in real world environments, for use by intelligent service robots.
http://aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/proj_nbs.html
This website talks about the use of smelling robots in airports.
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotics/universal/page10.html
One site that has information on Robots that have emotions is http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/emotions.html . This site deals with a robot named Kismet who reacts with different emotions. "Kismet's "emotions" are triggered by various events which are evaluated as being of significance to the ``well being'' of the robot. Once triggered, each "emotion" serves a particular set of functions to establish a desired relation between the robot to its environment." says the web site.
Another site dealing with Kismet is http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/eee2proj/hll01/COaiextra.html.
At this website, it talks about a new robot called the emtional machine. Like ants following their own pheromone trails back home, robots can be fitted with special quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors to detect and follow specific chemicals along the ground. With the ability to sense particular odours in this way, the applications of robots will stretch yet further. For example, swarms of robots could move together without colliding by avoiding the "smell" of their neighbour.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/robo/emotional.htm
This website is about robots sense of smell . Gas sensor systems known as "electronic noses" have been widely used under laboratory conditions, for food analysis, but so far there have been few applications on mobile platforms in real world environments, for use by intelligent service robots.
http://aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/proj_nbs.html
This website talks about the use of smelling robots in airports.
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotics/universal/page10.html
One site that has information on Robots that have emotions is http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/emotions.html . This site deals with a robot named Kismet who reacts with different emotions. "Kismet's "emotions" are triggered by various events which are evaluated as being of significance to the ``well being'' of the robot. Once triggered, each "emotion" serves a particular set of functions to establish a desired relation between the robot to its environment." says the web site.
Another site dealing with Kismet is http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/eee2proj/hll01/COaiextra.html.
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
After seating through class and looking at all the different senses that robots have, I have not changed any of my first thought. I still believe that robots are very unique and they do act just like humans, but they are nothin like humans. They are only here on this earth because human scientist created them. They can do all these things, only because a human has programed it to do so. Robots are great, but I don't think that they will ever overcome human life.
PROS and CONS
After finding information about this new innovation, I found that there are some good sides to it and there is also some bad. Many may believe there were can be no bad sides to purifying water, because it is for the better. Purifying the water is saving lives and making the world a better place. But, you must look at the big picture.
Purifying water is great and all, but what if soemthing goes wrong in the process of purifying it. What if the resident that is using the PUR mix, has not mixed it for long enough. What if they did not let it sit long enough after stiring it. Would they take in too much of the chemicals in their body that will harm them? If the water is not purified with the PUR mix, will they be able to drink water at all? These are questions you may ask.
You also may ask, what about the water supply. Well, where are they getting the water from? They are getting the water from the rivers and ponds and that are in the area. This is a bad thing as well, because what if to much water is taken from the river. Will there be enough water available for the life that lives underwater?
Although now you may think that the PUR mix is a bad idea, it really isnt. PUR mix is decreasing the percentage of people having diarrheal disease. It removes a high percentage of DDT, lead, chromium, and many other substances that are bad for the human health. Another good fact about PUR mix is that it is fast and easy. You don't have to wait for the water to be taken to a big water plant to be purified and then given back to you in a week. It is right there ready for you to use.
Only humans can:
Robots are man-made creations. They can not function without humans. They are given all their information that they give out by humans. Yes they can walk and talk, but only because a human has made it that developed to do so. Machinces can also see, feel, taste, smell, and hear. Machinces can also break down. If they do break down, they need a human to fix them in order to function again, which is sort of how a human need a doctor, but they can not die, although, they can be destroyed.
Taste
1. a piece of apple
2. a piece of limon
3. a potato chip (Ruffles)
Hear
1. a bell
2. paper waving and then wripping
3. keys shaking and then dropping on the floor {rings}
4. a bottle top open and then beatin on the bottle and the bottle top closing
5. A bag
Smell
1. something fresh.. like peppermint
2. somethin harder smelling{coffee grains}
3. cinnamin
4.? {black peper}
Feel
1. a toy ball wit little things from it. like a doggy toy
2. chopstick
3. a piece of silk.. like something you can wrap something with. scarf
4. rock
5. copper thingy{ a big penny}
Sight
Can machines do the same:
Yes they can. Machines can gather information just like humans. They can smell, feel, hear, see, and taste.
- breathe
- think by themselves
- cry
- bleed
- die
- swallow
Robots are man-made creations. They can not function without humans. They are given all their information that they give out by humans. Yes they can walk and talk, but only because a human has made it that developed to do so. Machinces can also see, feel, taste, smell, and hear. Machinces can also break down. If they do break down, they need a human to fix them in order to function again, which is sort of how a human need a doctor, but they can not die, although, they can be destroyed.
Taste
1. a piece of apple
2. a piece of limon
3. a potato chip (Ruffles)
Hear
1. a bell
2. paper waving and then wripping
3. keys shaking and then dropping on the floor {rings}
4. a bottle top open and then beatin on the bottle and the bottle top closing
5. A bag
Smell
1. something fresh.. like peppermint
2. somethin harder smelling{coffee grains}
3. cinnamin
4.? {black peper}
Feel
1. a toy ball wit little things from it. like a doggy toy
2. chopstick
3. a piece of silk.. like something you can wrap something with. scarf
4. rock
5. copper thingy{ a big penny}
Sight
- we looked into a book and inside the book was a mirror and we saw ourselves.
Can machines do the same:
Yes they can. Machines can gather information just like humans. They can smell, feel, hear, see, and taste.
Monday, July 28, 2003
Long ago wheelchairs were used to transport people to different areas. Wheelhcairs were invented back in the 6th century. This is the earliest found image of a wheelchair. It is incised in stone on a Chinese sarcophagus. In the 16th century, King Philip II of Spain used an elaborate rolling chair with movable arm and leg rests. In 1700, King Louis XIV used a "roulette" for moving about while recovering from an operation. In the 18th century, the first wheelchair that resembles today's design was created. It had two large front wooden wheels and one caster in rear. In the 19th and 20th centuries,following the American Civil war and World War I, the first wheelchairs were built with wooden frames, wicker seats, adjustable arm rests, footrests, and large spoked wheels. In 1894, a U.S. patent was filed for a wheelchair with a fixed frame, adjustable surfaces, firm wicker seats, and large rear wheels for self-propulsion. In 1932, Herbert Everest (an injured mining engineer) and Harold Jennings (a mechanical engineer) collaborated to design the first folding frame wheelchair. They went on to form the company that is today known as Everest & Jennings or E&J. In 1937, a patent was filed for the x-folding frame wheelchair. Sam Duke also marketed a folding wheelchair at same time. In the 1950s, Everest & Jennings developed the first powered wheelchair. They followed the development of transistor-controlled motors and adapted it to thier interest by adding a motor to their manual wheelchair design. In 1952, the beginning of wheelchair sports occurred with the first games held at the Stoke Mandeville Rehabilitation Center in England. In 1964, the first Paralympic games were held in Tokyo, Japan. In 1975, Bob Hall was the first person on a wheelchair to compete the Boston Marathon. In 1970/80, revolution in lighter weight manual chairs driven by the need and desires of wheelchair athletes. In the 1980s, microprocessor-controlled powered wheelchairs were developed, which allowed customization of controls to meet the needs of more user needs. In 1980-90s, the revolution in powered wheelchair design, control, styles, range or travel distance, suspension, maneuverability, seating and other user options.
Now, in the year 2003, a student from the University of Pittsburgh has developed a new wheelchair device to help the disabled. Viajay Kumar's wheelchair model has computer controlled arms that can pull the chair up and over obstacles such as a stair or a curb. When the chair returns to level ground, the arms fold out of the way, keeping the advantages of wheels. Kumar says that it is controlled by a keyboard right now, but it can easily be made into a joystick-controlled onboard system.
In the future, I think that we won't even have a need for wheelchairs. I think that everyone will be able to fly. We will all use devices to get to place to place. This way no one will feel left out in anyway. All will have a flat plastic board to stand on and there will be feet locks on it. Then there will be a motor added to it that can help you fly.
Now, in the year 2003, a student from the University of Pittsburgh has developed a new wheelchair device to help the disabled. Viajay Kumar's wheelchair model has computer controlled arms that can pull the chair up and over obstacles such as a stair or a curb. When the chair returns to level ground, the arms fold out of the way, keeping the advantages of wheels. Kumar says that it is controlled by a keyboard right now, but it can easily be made into a joystick-controlled onboard system.
In the future, I think that we won't even have a need for wheelchairs. I think that everyone will be able to fly. We will all use devices to get to place to place. This way no one will feel left out in anyway. All will have a flat plastic board to stand on and there will be feet locks on it. Then there will be a motor added to it that can help you fly.
Rangel, Josefa. (January 1, 2003) "A novel technology to improve drinking water quality: a microbiological evaluation of in-home flocculation and chlorination in rural Guatemela." http://www.iwaponline.com/jwh/001/jwh0010015.htm (July 28, 2003).
This is a wedsite that can be used for research information. It is very balanced, objective, and has factual information. If you have any questions about the information given, there is a contact buttom that you can press. The currency of this wedsite is important, because if you are reading this same information five years from now and none of the information is current, it won't be a good website to get information from. This website is very well-maintained. It is well designed and organized. It is easy to read and to navigate. A search is also available.
Souther, Philip. (January 1, 2003) "Evaluation of a new water treatment for point-of-use household applications to remove microorganisms and arsenic from drinking water." http://www.iwaponline.com/jwh/001/jwh0010073.htm (July 28, 2003).
This is a wedsite that can be used for research information. It is very balanced, objective, and has factual information. If you have any questions about the information given, there is a contact buttom that you can press. The currency of this wedsite is important, because if you are reading this same information five years from now and none of the information is current, it won't be a good website to get information from. This website is very well-maintained. It is well designed and organized. It is easy to read and to navigate. A search is also available.
This is a wedsite that can be used for research information. It is very balanced, objective, and has factual information. If you have any questions about the information given, there is a contact buttom that you can press. The currency of this wedsite is important, because if you are reading this same information five years from now and none of the information is current, it won't be a good website to get information from. This website is very well-maintained. It is well designed and organized. It is easy to read and to navigate. A search is also available.
Souther, Philip. (January 1, 2003) "Evaluation of a new water treatment for point-of-use household applications to remove microorganisms and arsenic from drinking water." http://www.iwaponline.com/jwh/001/jwh0010073.htm (July 28, 2003).
This is a wedsite that can be used for research information. It is very balanced, objective, and has factual information. If you have any questions about the information given, there is a contact buttom that you can press. The currency of this wedsite is important, because if you are reading this same information five years from now and none of the information is current, it won't be a good website to get information from. This website is very well-maintained. It is well designed and organized. It is easy to read and to navigate. A search is also available.
PUR mix is a great product, but it doesn't stand up to Bye By. Bye By is also a new chemical that is used to clean dangerous waters in other countries. The difference between Bye By and PUR mix is that PUR other cleans about 95 percent DDT, 98 percent of lead, and 99 percent of chromium in water. Bye By mix disinfects 100 percent of anything. Dirt, germs, and diseases. It even kills any insects that are in the water.
Bye By as been tested in many different locations. Places in Africa and Europe are just a few examples. Residents from this area have said that Bye By works better than PUR mix says Jim Brown from Health Care Center of Water in Missouri. To use Bye By all you have to do is put a 10-mL pill into a 20-liter of river or any other water. Let the pill dissolve in the water. You will be able to see the Bye By do its magic. Bubbles will start to form in the liter and then they will dissapper. Once all the bubbles are gone, all the nasty gunk and infected water are gone. This process takes up to only 10 minutes.
Although PUR mix and Bye By work the same, they are different in many ways. Bye By is much faster than PUR. It also can cleanses more water with one pill. You don't even have to open any packets or even have to stir it yourself. Also, the percentage of all the germs being gone is a higher percentage!
Bye By as been tested in many different locations. Places in Africa and Europe are just a few examples. Residents from this area have said that Bye By works better than PUR mix says Jim Brown from Health Care Center of Water in Missouri. To use Bye By all you have to do is put a 10-mL pill into a 20-liter of river or any other water. Let the pill dissolve in the water. You will be able to see the Bye By do its magic. Bubbles will start to form in the liter and then they will dissapper. Once all the bubbles are gone, all the nasty gunk and infected water are gone. This process takes up to only 10 minutes.
Although PUR mix and Bye By work the same, they are different in many ways. Bye By is much faster than PUR. It also can cleanses more water with one pill. You don't even have to open any packets or even have to stir it yourself. Also, the percentage of all the germs being gone is a higher percentage!
Sunday, July 27, 2003
After going on my paper chase, I choose an article from Science News called Germs Begone by J. Raloff. This article is about a new technology that cleans dangerous waters. It is called PUR mix. This new chemical turns even dark, foulsmelling, germ-laden water into a drink as clean as most U.S. tap water, says Stephen Luby of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Blench alone is a good disinfectant used to clean water. Although, dirt and other organis gunk are not fully cleansed from the water. This chemical acts just like blench, but better. It can remove 95 percent of the DDT, at least 98 percent of lead, and more then 99 percent of chromium in water samples, Allgood told Science News. This new chemical is also suppose to decrease the diarrheal disease that is primarily in poor sanitated and infected drinking water.
It was tested in may different locations like Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Blangladesh. Residents were told to stir a 4-gram pakcet of the PUR mix into a 10-liter just of river or other water for 5 minutes, until the dirt and other suspended materials settled out. They were then told to filter out the sediments by pouring the water through tightly woven cloth. Over the next 20 minutes, the water's residual chlorine bleach vanquished germs.
Blench alone is a good disinfectant used to clean water. Although, dirt and other organis gunk are not fully cleansed from the water. This chemical acts just like blench, but better. It can remove 95 percent of the DDT, at least 98 percent of lead, and more then 99 percent of chromium in water samples, Allgood told Science News. This new chemical is also suppose to decrease the diarrheal disease that is primarily in poor sanitated and infected drinking water.
It was tested in may different locations like Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Blangladesh. Residents were told to stir a 4-gram pakcet of the PUR mix into a 10-liter just of river or other water for 5 minutes, until the dirt and other suspended materials settled out. They were then told to filter out the sediments by pouring the water through tightly woven cloth. Over the next 20 minutes, the water's residual chlorine bleach vanquished germs.
