Day 13

Well, today was sort of a slow day. Technically I did not accomplish much, let alone anything worthwhile, but in my opinion I tried a lot of what not to do when trying to improve a jpeg image in IDL. Tom and I successfully got the program to smooth the image so it didn't appear so pixelated, but it just looked fuzzy and out of focus so that wasn't what we wanted. Therefore, to fix the problem we both spent the rest of the day looking through IDL help and trying to improve the quality of our images. Unsuccessfully we tried command after command until the end of the day. Tom had figured out how to "low pass filter" an image, but it had to be black-and-white, which is not very convenient for us when we want to filter images in color. At the meeting at 5 we'll probably ask Jake what he thinks and then try something else tomorrow. I hope we can figure it out, I think I'm tired of the syntax errors, if it works I won't have to demolish the computer. Wish me luck!