Week 3

During week three I jumped into the coding aspect of the internship. The goal was to create a program that would show the threshold of a picture and be able to find green objects. It took about two to three days to figure this out and with help from my co-volunteer we got a lot more work accomplished. He helped me focus more on the project and made coding a little more interesting. He is trying to learn more about coding, so the more he learns, the more he refreshes my memory on what I had learned in class before. This also helps teach me some new things I may have not learned or remembered. Once we finally got the threshold to recognize green, we then were told to focus on trying to put boxes around the green objects. This took a lot more work.
While playing around with the boxes we took different pieces of code and combined them with the code we have now. With this new coding we eventually came upon three different screens. The original, the threshold, and the screen where it was trying to put up contour lines. The screen with contour lines was very interesting in that it changed original colors to very odd colors; however it did put boxes around the green images. Once this had been figured out I was assigned a new goal.

My goal was then to be able to only look for the green images once a button had been pressed on the keyboard, be able to hit escape to exit the running program, and to try to get the boxes onto the threshold image. The easiest assignment is to hit escape to exit the image, so that is the one I shall work on first, and will continue on to the next ones. I was only able to complete the task of pressing the escape box to get out of the running program. The rest of the week was spent transcribing videos and seeing what other types of programs could be used with this project.

Tia, Hamlet, and I also went to visit the Innovation Center where another partner of the project was working on different parts as well. He showed us numerous scenarios as to how to show the different types of systems on the map. The swales, rain barrels, green roofs, permeable pavements, and even sewer drains. One of the programs worked off of certain patterns and another worked off the size of the square. When placed on the table the project would place an image on the screen stating what type of system it was. This was a very interesting project and began sparking many ideas and questions. This helped lead into week four.