Progress Log for Quarter 1
Status report for two weeks ended November 1
Coding of second iteration is nearing completion. Assignments for first quarter completed.
November 1, 2002
End of oral presentations. Websites reviewed. Turned in end-of-quarter assignments. Worked on coding [after school].
October 30, 2002
Watched two more presentations. Finished up Project Proposal and modified the web site.
October 28, 2002
Watched Matt's presentation on his Luminance Project and Mike T.'s presentation on his particle engine project. Updated and improved my LaTeX project proposal.
October 25, 2002
Worked on switching my iteration to use stdio.h instead of fstream.h. Watched oral reports by George, Jing, and Laura.
October 23, 2002
Created oral presentation summary web page, which can be found here. Finished LaTeX document, and posted it here.
October 21, 2002
Gave an oral presentation on my project and discussed the project.
Status report for three weeks ended October 18
Finished a header-reading program for .pgm files.
Worked on LaTeX proposal document. Began preparation for oral
presentation.
October 18, 2002
Figured out problem with LaTeX bibliography.
Watched Ben Ellis' oral presentation. Lack of Internet was once again
a problem.
October 16, 2002
Continued work on LaTeX document, but was hampered
by broken Internet connection. Will finish on Friday.
October 10, 2002
Worked on my first LaTeX document. Was out of the
lab for a significant part of the period, having my yearbook picture
taken.
October 8, 2002
Began new iteration report. Planned second
iteration.
October 4, 2002
Finished coding for header interpretation.
Updated logs and iteration report.
October 2, 2002
Worked on coding for interpretation of the file
headers. Updated Iteration 1 report to mention the new coding.
September 30, 2002
Continued coding. Short block.
Status report for two weeks ended Sept 27, 2002:
Some research into previously used methods of
steganography completed. Began coding a rudimentary first iteration that
uses .pgm files rather than JPEGs.
September 23, 2002
Continued research.
September 20, 2002
Found a few articles on steganography using
Proquest. One included a helpful explanation with graphics of one possible
implementation of steganography.
September 18, 2002
Updated the informal
proposal by adding a description of who the potential users are. Also
created a folder for iteration progress reports,
and began the first iteration
progress report (.txt file).
Status report for two weeks ended Sept 13., 2002:
Completed informal project
proposal. Most of web site completed (needs beautifying). Some
Internet research completed. Important things left to do before
beginning: decide finally
what image file type to use for project; research that file type; research
schemes for steganography.
September 11, 2002
Added several pages to this website. Hope to
be completed with main page framework on Friday.
September 9, 2002
Continued web research. Continued
constructing this web site.
September 6, 2002
Began doing research of my topic on the World
Wide Web. Confirmed the technical term for what I'm doing:
"steganography." Links to potentially helpful sites are here.