Activities for Week of August 29, 2016
1. Met with Prof. Mohamed Moustaoui (https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/730672), my math professor for Applied Dynamical Systems, and discussed the recursive video project. His thoughts were around how to collect data from the experiments that could be used to calculate key parameters in more classical dynamical systems methods. He is very interested in learning more about what we do in Synthesis and would like to have more exposure.
He started in theoretical physics, went into weather systems and is now a mathematician.
2. Met with Todd Ingalls regarding the video feedback Max algorithms for looking at dynamical systems and he provided a quick-and-dirty Max patch to evaluate.
3. Xin Wei also pointed me in the direction of a Max tutorial around recursive video.
4. Received a zipped folder of MatLab projects from Anirudh for Lyapunov exponent calculations, based on Vinay's paper. Spent some time updating my MatLab installation with the required Chaotic Systems Toolkit. I'm still not quite sure how to use this, but I'm confident of my progress.
Work for Week of September 5, 2016
1. I'll be in Hawaii in the midst of a major hurricane. I'll take photos.
2. Work on recursive video of faucet flow in Max. I have video.
3. Outline a proposed brown bag presentation re dynamical systems.
Summary of Current Projects
1. Recursive Video as an experimental environment for the study of high dimensional dynamical systems. (Rhythm Analysis)
2. Lyapunov exponents: how to generate them in MatLab from time-series data (ideally) that can be used to inform Max implementations.
3. Brown Bag: what I learned over the summer that changed my life regarding how the world works wrt dynamical systems.