Steph's paintings at the Beaverbrook

Here are a couple of Steph's paintings that are at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. The top one is called 'The Biker' and the bottom one is a self portrait called 'Hands in Hair'. She is so talented! Nice work Steph.

Beam patterns

Last week Tom tried to get Val and I to come up with the beam pattern for a curved hydrophone array. Val did his on Friday afternoon and it worked great. It gave results that led to conclusions and further recommendations, and an overall benefit to the harbour tracking project as a whole. I did mine in Matlab using the BFI method (brute force and ignorance - plenty of both) and came up with the above plot - the colors represent decibel levels. I have no idea what happened. And since I have no idea what happened, what better to do than to randomly change parameters in the code in hopes of coming up with a nice desktop background. So I changed the radius of curvature, took the absolute value, and came up with this one: