9:50 am - 5:50 pm

I listened to the interview on philosophies of aging and care of elders. I decided to go ahead and try to create some mockups of visualizations.

First I did a floorplan mockup, which is where I spent most of my day.  Note to self: The fastest way to make the tigerplace floorplans usable is to manually put black and white where you want it, then in Gimp, delete the white to leave it transparent. There isn't really any way (that I've found yet) to automate the process, due to there being about 3 jillion shades of white and several more between there and black. (Converting it straight to monochrome is NOT pretty. Don't do that.)

Now I'm working on a mockup of a 1-D reading, such as a vibration sensor or something else that has continuous (or many discrete) values. I can't seem to get my code to access the "left" property of a div from javascript, so that's going to make it hard to do the motion I need. I'm looking at online scripts that scroll text to try to find someone who's done it. I found one very good, simple example -- but it works in IE, not Firefox, and I don't know why. I've bookmarked a more promising site to look at tomorrow.