[okfn-labs] [open-science] Mapping antimatter with CrowdCrafting.org

[Daniel Lombraña González]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is a brilliant application of Crowdcrafting. It seems to me to tick
> all the boxes.
>

Thanks a lot for your kind words!!!


> * Everyone can understand the point - does normal gravity attract
> antimatter
> * The task is simple to understand - mark the tracks of particles (since
> they are straight it's easy to construct the app - start and endpoints
> * Humans are better than machines at doing this
> * There is a nice 3D output of the contributed tracks so you can
> immediately see what you have contributed. Patterns of similar lines are
> evident (I assume that is due to multiple contributors?)
>

Yes, and it is really beautiful because you can see the tracks reported by
all the volunteers that cluster themselves around it :-)


>
> Is there a discussion group for it? There are some questions I would like
> to ask about the experiment and I expect others might as well. For example
> are our points used as data or as an initial step to define the regions to
> analyze in more detail?
>

Not yet, but we will soon :-) We are working on it, hehe. Regarding your
question, if I'm not mistaken these tracks will be used to analyze again
those areas and see what is going on.

I can put you in contact with Michael Doser about this specific issue, he
will be happy to answer your questions.


>
> I shall try to find time to blog it - it deserves wide publicity
>

Thanks a lot Peter! Let me know when you blog about it, so I can retweet it
:D

Cheers,

Daniel

>
>
>
> 2013/8/6 Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This last weekend the Citizen Cyberscience Centre organized the second
>> CERN summer student webfest<http://www.citizencyberscience.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page>.
>> I've participated in it, and I worked in a project championed by Michael
>> Doser, the spokesperson of the AEgIS experiment at CERN that studies
>> antimatter.
>>
>> I worked with a very talented group of students and we made a
>> CrowdCrafting application that invites you to map tracks of antimatter from
>> their experiment.
>>
>> The application is here: http://crowdcrafting.org/app/antimatter
>>
>> The blog post is here:
>> http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/08/06/mapping-antimatter-with-crowdcrafting.html
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> PS: I'm CC okfn-labs as I mention briefly the technologies that we use
>> HTML5 Canvas + WebGL ;-)
>>
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> University of Cambridge
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o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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