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  Week 1 (5/29 - 5/31)

  By Michael Liu

  This has been the first week of research. It's been pretty straight-forward learning some of the ins-and-outs of the REU program as well as LookingGlass IDE and Community. Tuesday morning...

  • May 31, 2012
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  Week 2 (6/1-6/7)

  By Michael Liu

  This week has primarily been a lot of thinking and trying to come up with ideas that could possibly work. My starter project has turned out to be a great deal more complex than I or Kyle initially...

  • Jun 07, 2012
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  Week 3 (6/8-6/14)

  By Michael Liu

  This week has been interesting. Caitlin, Kyle, and Jordana were all gone at a conference in Germany to present some of the results of their work. This leaves the six of us undergraduates here...

  • Jun 14, 2012
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  Proposal

  By Michael Liu

  1) The Project: Looking Glass is an IDE that allows users to reuse code written by other users. This occurs through a remix process where users can capture a particular animation from a different...

  • Jun 14, 2012
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  Week 4 (6/15 - 6/21)

  By Michael Liu

  This week has been a return to a lot of conceptualizing. I needed to figure out how exactly to encourage users to put the remix visualization to good use. The main way to do this is to make remixes...

  • Jun 21, 2012
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  Remix Visualization

  By Michael Liu

  To encourage users to use the remix visualization, it needs to be somehow both interactive and educational. The evolutionary history of a world is unlikely to be that interesting to most children....

  • Jun 22, 2012
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  Week 5 (6/22 - 6/28)

  By Michael Liu

  As we approach the end of this week, what I am hoping to do is finalize the remix visualization. I think the best plan of action to encourage viewing the remix visualization is a combination of...

  • Jun 28, 2012
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  Week 6 (6/29 - 7/5)

  By Michael Liu

  It's been a good week. I finally began my return to coding. Although, it's been an interesting journey thinking about the all of the things that the remix visualization needs to do, I'm very happy...

  • Jul 05, 2012
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  Week 7 (7/6 - 7/13)

  By Michael Liu

  This week has been great. I managed to complete my additions to the Looking Glass Community website. I had been working on putting tabs in the world show page in order to save space for the remix...

  • Jul 16, 2012
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  Week 8 (7/16 - 7/19)

  By Michael Liu

  Jumping back in this week after being gone on Thursday and Friday was exciting. It had been an exciting weekend with the incoming freshmen and some of them were genuinely interested in Looking...

  • Jul 19, 2012
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