12-02-2009, 07:37 PM
Erm, er .... :oops:
Well, fact is folks, that .... well (ahem) I started that off as a bit of a joke! Well, only half a joke actually. But it seems to have been taken seriously - and perhaps that's not a bad thing after all. I think we definitely ended up with the: "something completely different that we were looking for. At least it's got everyone thinking about how we could go about this in a more (if you'll excuse the expression), "scientific manner". So, the joke's very definitely on me! :lol:
I think you can see that my contention that the system is flexible certainly works. There were several cases where people came up with some additional characteristics, which could just be added in. It's also easy to move things around, so our 'decorated' category can easily accomodate the 'eyebrows' as well as other types of decoration.
Perhaps we should ask Jasper to add an additional field to the helmets DB - called "Code", or something similar? Now there are some 20 fields in this mnemonic, and around 650 helmets on the DB, so that's (let me see ....) 7,000 entries? :lol: Anyone got a spare weekend? :wink:
Caratacus
(Dr. Mike Thomas)
Well, fact is folks, that .... well (ahem) I started that off as a bit of a joke! Well, only half a joke actually. But it seems to have been taken seriously - and perhaps that's not a bad thing after all. I think we definitely ended up with the: "something completely different that we were looking for. At least it's got everyone thinking about how we could go about this in a more (if you'll excuse the expression), "scientific manner". So, the joke's very definitely on me! :lol:
I think you can see that my contention that the system is flexible certainly works. There were several cases where people came up with some additional characteristics, which could just be added in. It's also easy to move things around, so our 'decorated' category can easily accomodate the 'eyebrows' as well as other types of decoration.
Perhaps we should ask Jasper to add an additional field to the helmets DB - called "Code", or something similar? Now there are some 20 fields in this mnemonic, and around 650 helmets on the DB, so that's (let me see ....) 7,000 entries? :lol: Anyone got a spare weekend? :wink:
Caratacus
(Dr. Mike Thomas)
visne scire quod credam? credo orbes volantes exstare.
