Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Completion

After receiving help from Martin and the code required to build the environment, we took the exisiting code martin had provided and added to it. Before we had one tree organism linked to the CO2 Levels of Lecture Theatre 'A', now we have three trees linked to Lecture 'A', The wind vane and rain sensors from Portland Square. This will show the environment possibly growing and dying at the same time in one application.

At the moment we are only able to run the application from inside 'J Developer' due to security settings within web browsers that won't allow us to run the Java application unless it is 'signed'.

We have to say that although we designed the environment ourselves all the coding required to achieve it was provided by Martin Beck and we only changed existing code to produce the final piece of work.

This is a screen grab of the organism running, as you can see two of the trees are fading in at different opacities and the third isn't even visible.













To conclude, we are happy with the way in which the organism idea turned out and is fairly close to that of our original ideas, however we did plan on using a more detailed representation of the organism being affected by the results of each sensor, however due to time and limited programming knowledge myself and Rob felt that this would be the more simple option for us to at least show something at the presentation sessions.

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