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2/13/2013 11:13:19 AM
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Thanks and thanks! I'd just like to add that large scale coordination is still important, our program just makes it easier to capture the moments of high activity.
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Are you sure that things must still be coordinated? I thought different regions just have different frequency patterns associated with them and since you guys are capturing all of the data as long as each "region" logs in you will collect that portion of the image and compile it as though they had all logged in at once?
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The area where the 1 and 4 are so clearly visible came from the first few outputs right after it went live midnight Bungie time - there was a lot of people on in that first 15 minutes but since then only a trickle. So yes eventually it will fill in but I think if we timed our bursts every hour or so like we have been doing we'll fill it in better like the 1 and 4 are now.
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Possibly, I'm just saying I think that each person/region has a unique pattern that they add to the puzzle - regardless of when they log in and regardless of how many other people/regions are logged in. I think a big chunk was made visible because a lot of different patterns were active at once. But if all of those same people logged in again at any other time we wouldn't get anything new. I can't prove it so I will continue to support all theories. But I think everyone should log in once as soon as they get a chance and then at least once again at the designated 2 EST time slot. So that, if I'm right, we get the basic picture before 2 and if I'm wrong there has only been a slight waste of time on most people's parts. But if I'm right, everyone will know tomorrow to just log in whenever they get the chance and they can essentially be "done" for the day.
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Edited by freefall722: 2/13/2013 4:21:06 PMOh, the info you're missing is that the geomask spins throughout the day - I think to represent earth's spin (TTL's animated gif helped show this) - so the same people logging in right now would place little dots in a different section then they did an hour ago.
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Ah, if that is indeed the case then yes, logging in at various times in the day is essential - especially today considering the full circle is needed.
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It's true, eventually we can get the image regardless of coordination given that enough people login from different locations over time, but given the way the mask rotates and changes over the course of the day, it would reveal itself much faster if there were a lot of people on at one time (just out of the sheer saturation of that particular area).
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Right, so we should encourage everyone to log on once - ASAP. And then once again at the designated 2 EST/11 PST. Also what did you use to automate it? I tried playing with a couple of C# libraries last night but AForge had to downgrade the quality too much to achieve anything useful. And have some deadlines today so couldn't spend too much time figuring out other methods.
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It's actually an objective-c program written in Xcode that uses ImageMagick command-line tools for the FFT processing. Saving the result to a dropbox folder makes it hands-free.
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Edited by freefall722: 2/13/2013 3:31:35 PMWe spent a lot of time at first trying to find a good FFT library to use but finally settled on using ImageMagick because we could call it through the command line from our main program. We also used it for doing the threshold. Everything else was written in ObjC. Edit: Ninja'd
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Who are you in the IRC?
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I'm not there today - was there yesterday as freefall722 though.
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Okay, was gonna say, saw someone posted a dropbox link and it turned out to be your picture but they said they weren't you lol
