February 2012 Archive

K4 hull sanding, filling, priming

2/8/12

Vincent and Damon continue to sand and fill the hulls. Today Damon primed the hulls again. Tomorrow they’ll do some spot filling and prime again. After that, wet-sanding.

Bridle System Algorithm

2/8/12

Dudu has been working on the bridle system algorithm for the last 3 weeks, and he finally got it working.

It has the same tools as the current software with many improvements. The algorithm finds the perfect path from the bar through all the bifurcating points along the “tree” to finally end on each kite attachment point. Attached are some screen grabs of one bridle model, and below is the XML file that contains bridle data and the C++ code that is the “engine” of the bridle system.

This was designed to be flexible and allow the use on many types of objects other than conventional kites. Dudu is now working now on the UI (User Interface) to facilitate the flexible design and […more]

Feb 6 – Lone Ranger Update

2/6/12

Lots of great photos from this day, including some details of the Deepsea Observatory sediment trap and the Kytoon.

Feb 4 – Lone Ranger Update

2/4/12

Today most activities were delayed due to foul weather. The boat did progress from station #5 toward station #6.