Week 4 - Shell of final presentation

Post date: Nov 24, 2015 9:25:56 PM

This past week was a crucial week for our team. In the beginning of the week we went through and edited and introduction, background and methodology chapters. We went through and made sure the methodology was as clear and concise as possible. We corrected the comments from our advisers, and updated all of our sections

At the beginning of the week we had a meeting with Jonathan Taggart who is an expert in a photogrammetry CAD software. He showed us how to use the program and some of the models that he has created. The software is called Agisoft, and you upload photos you've taken of an object from as many angles as possible. The software then allows you to create a 3D rendering of the object, in as much detail as the photos allowed. We discussed the feasibility of taking photos of the four boats we were modeling. We came to the conclusion that our current models would suffice for the purpose of our project. The 3D models produced by this software would really only be for visualization purposes. It would be very difficult to take the appropriate amount of photos of the boats, since they are very large and there would be difficulties getting the entire boat in the picture. Also, the glossy finish would mess up the models, and the divets in the boat might mess up the Maxsurf calculations. Instead, we worked on creating superstructures as can be seen in the picture below. We took picutures of the top parts of the current boat hulls, and uploaded/edited them into Rhino so that anyone could visually tell which boat hull we were modeling. We will continue to work on these superstructures as we create more models.

On Tuesday we went to the Arsenale in Venice to try and see if we could find an ACTV out of water that we could take pictures and measurements of. We walked around the area and thought we found the area where we would be able to find the boats, however it was a no entry zone so we were not able to go in. We continued to look throughout the area with no luck. After trying to find other ways into the Arsenale, we gave up and traveled to Guidecca. This island is where two of our team members would be sitting to look at the cruise ships. We scooped out the area to make sure we would be able to have a good view of the cruise ship area. On Sunday we will have the two members looking at what boats are coming from the cruise ships, and telling the two other teammates sitting at the port where the boats would be coming in. They will tell them the license plate numbers of the boats coming in, and then the other two students will count the amount of people coming off the boats from the cruise ship.

Later on that day, we created the shell of our results and conclusion sections for our presentation slides. We put in placeholder figures and tables with the expected results we planned on getting. On Wednesday we had a meeting with our advisers and went over changes to make for our presentation. They suggested using animations to better represent how moto ondoso works and the damages it creates, along with other edits. On that same day we did more research on the M hull, because while we were traveling to Guidecca we saw an M hull on an ACTV boat. After further research, we discovered that the city of Venice designed a 9th series of the ACTV with an M hull design, however they only created one due to costs. We also discovered that the original M hull delivered to the city was actually flammable and didn't even fit under several of the bridges in Venice. We will do further research on this topic to discover if the M hull is actually a feasible design.

On Thursday we will have a meeting with our advisers, Gregorio, and Jonathan Taggart to go over our final presentation. They will critique our presentation so that we can edit it in the next week. On Friday we will continue to work with Gregorio on our hull designs. On Saturday we will be helping the Streets Team do people counts at the Rialto Bridge. Our team will be in charge of counting the people at the boat stops. On Sunday we will be doing the cruise ship counts, and on Monday we will be helping the Tourist team with people counts at San Marco while we interview tourists about taxi sharing.

We look forward to the week ahead, and to our Thanksgiving break.

The Wakes team