Two or three years ago the New Yorker ran an article about digitizing a large tapestry. As I remember the tapestry was laid out on a floor, and a high-resolution scanner was moved over it on a framework of some sort.
This took a while (days or weeks) and the fabric, responding to changes in temperature and moisture, would slightly moved between the times when different sections were digitized. Reconstructing the original appearance of the tapestry in the digitization became quite a problem
This seems to resemble your problem in several aspects.
The article describes how two mathematicians solved the problem.
Though it concentrated more on the human side of the issue than the technical, it still contained a few hints as to how they did it.
I'd suggest reading that article to see what you can glean. At the very least it can provide with some names to use either for a literature search or to contact directly.
A hint is that the tapestry featured a unicorn, and that word was probably in the title of the article.
...one can demonstrate in Archy his pushing of his concepts to the limit resulted in the end not fully matching his goals. Somewhat like "Literate Programming", in fact.
In "Literate Programming" the comments are all important and the code itself is trivialized. The code, as Jef told me, is like "raisons in the muffin of the comments." There are paragraphs of verbiage which might go on about the history of the project, why certain features were discarded, etc., etc, and might not even explain what the following line or two of code was concerned with.
It's really very difficult to deal with code that has been written in this style ("literatized?" ) since the actual structure of the program is severly obscured. It serves as an example of how overdoing a good thing is usually a bad thing.
Jef was a nice guy, and I recommend his book, "The Humane Interface" for its many interesting ideas.
His attempt to put them into practice in the Archy project http://rchi.raskincenter.org/aboutrchi/index.php/, was not completed before his death. Even for that, Archy is very close to his vision.
But since Jef was in many ways an extremist, one can demonstrate in Archy his pushing of his concepts to the limit resulted in the end fully maching his goals. Somewhat like "Literate Programming", in fact.
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Two or three years ago the New Yorker ran an article about digitizing a large tapestry. As I remember the tapestry was laid out on a floor, and a high-resolution scanner was moved over it on a framework of some sort.
This took a while (days or weeks) and the fabric, responding to changes in temperature and moisture, would slightly moved between the times when different sections were digitized. Reconstructing the original appearance of the tapestry in the digitization became quite a problem
This seems to resemble your problem in several aspects.
The article describes how two mathematicians solved the problem.
Though it concentrated more on the human side of the issue than the technical, it still contained a few hints as to how they did it.
I'd suggest reading that article to see what you can glean. At the very least it can provide with some names to use either for a literature search or to contact directly.
A hint is that the tapestry featured a unicorn, and that word was probably in the title of the article.
If you have trouble locating it, try writing me.
What a non-surprise.
It's the guys who own the status quo that are sending the message.
....are made up on the spot.
..and "Design Patterns" by Gamma et als. 'nuf said.
Or listen to Interview here:
It got rid of a lot of the fear, and it got me started.
I now write considerably better than I talk, but that's another story.
..hey, if you don't like it, just remember to it off before you leave in the shuttle craft without authorization.
Ophthalmologists have known this for years, and are trained to detect these symptoms.
...I wonder if they'll finally fix it?
I just can't at all.
It's the representative bargain: do the right stuff, you get re-elected.
Even proposing it is a step in the right direction.
Too much shallow cynicism in that post....
[Don't worry, your location will be upgraded in good time.]
A passenger car goes from start to finish and then stops.
A taxi goes from start to finish and then cruises around looking for the next start (I used to drive one, so I know).
Which is the least polluting plan?
Better: make all cars hybrid.
More Better: make all cars hydrogen.
Best: everybody stay at home an telecommute. (and make all pizza delivery cars hybrid.)
A national disgrace, I'm sure.
Kill!
Kill!
Kill!
Kill!
} while (population > 0);
...only an idiot would run a waste disposal canal through an entertainment area!
Java that's the basic C++ gobbeldeegook and improves it to the point of usability.
Java in no way improves on C.
C remains the best low-level language. The only thing better is assembly.
In "Literate Programming" the comments are all important and the code itself is trivialized. The code, as Jef told me, is like "raisons in the muffin of the comments." There are paragraphs of verbiage which might go on about the history of the project, why certain features were discarded, etc., etc, and might not even explain what the following line or two of code was concerned with.
It's really very difficult to deal with code that has been written in this style ("literatized?" ) since the actual structure of the program is severly obscured. It serves as an example of how overdoing a good thing is usually a bad thing.
Jef was a nice guy, and I recommend his book, "The Humane Interface" for its many interesting ideas. His attempt to put them into practice in the Archy project http://rchi.raskincenter.org/aboutrchi/index.php/, was not completed before his death. Even for that, Archy is very close to his vision.
But since Jef was in many ways an extremist, one can demonstrate in Archy his pushing of his concepts to the limit resulted in the end fully maching his goals. Somewhat like "Literate Programming", in fact.
It's the American way:
http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/021701/021 701beckytransit.html
no discovery, nothing new: move along, there's nothing to see here.
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Does our government own itself and us?
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Does anybody else remember when Russia/USSR was called "The bigest jail on the planet"?
But even with that goal it still includes some very irritating and useless constructs.
It's best place is to replace the original BASIC as in introduction to computer programming course... say at the early middle school level.
Encourage her to become active on it.
This will exercise both her memory and typing skills (it's the only reason my teenager learned to type :)