Phil 10.12.12

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

  • Backups – all is well.
  • Farewell lunch for Jessica
  • Working on color recognizing code. Editor freaked out and gave warnings for items inherited from QueryWidgetBase and WidgetBase. Solved mysteriously after some flailing. Probably closing and re-opening the project fixed it.
  • Got the main piece of the color code working, but I can’t have a hybrid model that lets the default color scheme take over once I’ve run out of custom colors. So I’m converting the RGB of the two theme colors and calculating a family of colors in HSB space. This will be nicer anyway, since the theme will now be usable on the pie chart and will make the other charts look a little better.
  • Neat video on data visualization and ‘data foraging’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IbTZBMHiY4