Week 2 Tuesday (Testing with Program)

We began the day by going over our individual progress during the staff meeting. I was still struggling with getting the program to work.

Thus, I began the day on that task. I commented the latter steps of the code in order to go through each of the steps to find which part of the code was the problem. I found that the problem was in the equation solver. The second matrix that I was creating from the hockey rink perspective repeated the variables from the first matrix. Thus, when I was accessing the variables that the equation solver was creating, I was accessing the same variables each time. Thus, the final answer was different from what I had found when doing the math by hand.

After letting the rest of the code play out by itself, the answer that I got from the program was actually accurate, contrary to the inaccurate calculations I had done by hand. It seems that the online calculator was not doing it correctly, or I didn't copy over the data properly. Either way, it is good to see that the program is finally working.

I continued using this program to test various frames from the broadcast footage. However, after speaking with Joe, it became evident that in order to truly compare the three fixed focal length camera system with the system we were testing, it was better to utilize the same frames that the freshman had tested. Thus, we could compare our results with theirs and determine who had more accurate results. We will continue to work on these calculations for the next few days.