The Diodogorgia project continues, of course, and right now, I am in the throes of making the final adjustments to the 180 movies I made last week of the polyps feeding in 16 and 24 cm/sec currents. There is often quite a bit of massaging that is necessary to bring the “raw” movie upto easily viewable condition. I convert it from a QuickTime movie to a Windows one, then generally, I have to brighten it up, and sharpen it slightly. Additionally, I also put a title on it. All of this takes time, even if each movie is only 40 seconds of raw material.
Fortunately, the process is straight forward and easy, it just consumes some time. Actually, for 180 movies, it consumes a LOT of time. But that process will be done shortly. Then I will do the analyses that I do, and soon… I hope by the beginning of the second week of July, I will actually be able to getting to the nitty and gritty of some actual writing.
Or more likely, making some more illustrations for the manuscripts and presentations. With the MACNA presentation coming up in September, I need to be getting going on having that prepared. I REALLY don’t want to go in that conference with a half-assed presentation. Particularly, of this stuff!!!
So… back to work,
More later,
Cheers!!!