[Activity 4] We are going to estimate the length and area of real-life objects based on an image of the object. This becomes useful for example when we want to know the area of a landmark, town, or city, and the only information available is a map of the city (think of a primitive version… Continue reading Length and Area Estimation
Category: Scilab
Scilab Basics
[Activity 3] As part of our AP186 class, we started learning Scilab, which is an open-source software for numerical computation (more can be seen in their site http://www.scilab.org/ ). It is most similar to Matlab, and in addition to our present knowledge of Python, will most definitely help in research work as scientists. Scilab is most… Continue reading Scilab Basics
Digital Scanning
[Activity 2] Weird, where’s Activity 1? Well there isn’t any, since our first activity was to make a movie poster with our faces on them. Unfortunately, I don’t have the picture with me at the moment, but maybe in the future I’ll use it in one of my posts. Our first real activity involves scanning.… Continue reading Digital Scanning