{"id":1557,"date":"2011-02-17T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2011-02-17T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:16:30","slug":"geometric-models-day-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/2011\/02\/17\/geometric-models-day-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometric Models, Day IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returned to work with renewed resolve after yesterday&#8217;s flagging enthusiasm. Started early, arriving well before 8 in the morning, and had knocked several more models out by 9. On the way to lunch, knocked out a couple more, though progress slowed a little. By 2pm, had done a reasonable job at making models with 16 or less measurements for each individual for all but three species\u2014the dreaded <em>Centrobotrys <\/em>lineage. These are an extra level of tricky because they&#8217;re not axially symmetric, and I&#8217;m not sure how to get a reasonable approximation of the strange &#8220;fused post- and antecephalic chambers&#8221; that form the upper part of the shell.<\/p>\n<p>At 6:17, finally managed to pull through and come up with a geometric model (however daft) for each species. A huge relief. At some point I will visualize these using Google SketchUp to show what the models look like and how they compare to the actual forms; for the measurement protocol and RadData interface, however, I&#8217;ll only need to provide a diagram of how the<em> measurements <\/em>are made.<\/p>\n<p>That, however, is for tomorrow. Good riddance, day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returned to work with renewed resolve after yesterday&#8217;s flagging enthusiasm. Started early, arriving well before 8 in the morning, and had knocked several more models out by 9. On the way to lunch, knocked out a couple more, though progress slowed a little. By 2pm, had done a reasonable job at making models with 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14607,13584],"tags":[16243],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-journal","category-timekeeping","tag-rad-lineages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}