Capturing the motion of trees

Turns out it's a pretty hard problem. But it does involve quality time outdoors in the wind playing with technology. This is a picture of our set up in a park in Orem, Utah. We've got a laptop next to a weather station in the grass. Some motion capture equipment on a wire running to the tree and a little wind speed measuring device next to the tree.

We made three important discoveries with this set up. First, debugging a technical process in 16 MPH wind is not that easy. Second, we should have brought a little camping table to put our stuff on. Third, our mocap system didn't save our data the way we thought it would save our data and we lost all of our data.

Other than that, it was a good trip.