[FMO] Re: Stardust@home experiences

  • From: "David Johnson" <drknite@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:22:56 -0500

I just passed my 100th actual movie when I got bumped, but on my 99th movie,
I found a trail in the live data.  Now I don't know if I'm the first to have
seen it or not (it is noted in my list of submissions and was reviewed by 2
people), but I was excited nonetheless.  I quickly got used to the insertion
of calibration data, and have almost been able to anticipate it when it
comes up.

I also got one of the inserted images - it looks like an old cruise ship
(similar to Titanic), but is severely pixelated, like it was enlarged from a
very small image.

Dave


On 8/1/06, Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 

 Hi All,

Well, just finished a much longer session, almost reaching movie #100 (+30
calibration movies) before getting bumped.  I noticed the ranking pool
(1625) never increases, which seems unlikely unless they actually limited
it to this many initial users.

My ranking was bouncing around #12-14 when somehow I missed a "donut"
in one of the test movies, which immediately bumped me to #26.  Haven't
missed one since, but I notice the ranking still sometimes ticks higher.
Guess that means that some people are reviewing images faster than I
am.

I have noticed a few oddities in the movies.  Sometimes a phantom frame
will appear in the movie sequence -- usually this is a frame from a
different
movie, but occasionally it's someone's photograph!  I got a black & white
image of a young Asian couple's wedding reception, a color car ad for
some blue sedan (very pixelated), and a color image of four young ladies
--
probably from the same wedding.  Amusing bug!  --Rob

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