IDETC presentation prep: Doumont template and video notes

[me-madsen]

Adds scaffolding for IDETC presentation preparation (#83):

• presentation/doumont-presentation-template.md: editable transcription of Jean-luc Doumont's TM&Th-3.2 presentation-structure template for @me-madsen to fill out
• presentation/doumont-video-notes.md: placeholder for notes and impressions from the Doumont slide design video

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[me-madsen]

I've attached my notes from my review of Jean-luc Duomont's presentation.
Notes on Duomont's Presentation.pdf

[sgbaird]

I've organize my notes and uploaded them. I'm working on finishing my outline draft using Duomont's outline, and I'll have that uploaded soon. I've downloaded both of your previous presentations as well to review and use as a template.

(from #83 (comment))

Sounds good, thanks!

[me-madsen]

Presentation Outline Draft 1 (7-17-2026).pdf

First draft/attempt at a draft using Duomont's outline.

[me-madsen]

@claude review the draft I uploaded and provide a feedback review for it, taking into account our current manuscript direction in #75. Also take into account my notes from Duomont's presentation as far as they are applicable to this draft.

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Review of Presentation Outline Draft 1

• Download and read the outline draft PDF
• Download and read the Doumont notes PDF
• Review manuscript direction in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design manuscript #75 (via PR ASME Journal of Mechanical Design - T3 prism optimization manuscript #76, which implements it)
• Read PR files (Doumont template & video notes)
• Write feedback review

TL;DR: The structure is solid — you followed the Doumont template faithfully, the planetary-lander hook matches the manuscript's framing exactly, and the transitions between body points have real logic to them. The two biggest fixes: (1) the main message is too generic and claims "robust" when your actual story is speed, and (2) a few phrases contradict the current manuscript direction ("combining real and simulated data," "generative design"). Details below.

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What's working well

• The lander hook is the right call. PR ASME Journal of Mechanical Design - T3 prism optimization manuscript #76 (the manuscript for ASME Journal of Mechanical Design manuscript #75) deliberately re-scoped the paper so the title/abstract/intro consistently frame a planetary-lander/payload energy absorber, with the crutch tip demoted to a future-work mention only. Your outline independently landed on the same structure — space hook up front, crutch tip as an optional aside tied to future research. Keep it exactly that way; it keeps the talk and paper telling one story.
• Three body points with explicit transitions. "The limit is now providing data quickly enough" as the bridge from BO → AM is genuinely Doumont-style: each point creates the need for the next. That's the strongest part of the outline.
• The close bookends the opening (space exploration → advancing humankind), which gives the talk a clean arc.
• Preview points are full-sentence messages, not topic labels — per your own notes ("full sentence in title; title is the main message of the slide"), these can become slide titles nearly verbatim.

Main message needs sharpening

Your one-sentence takeaway is: "We provide a robust method for designing and optimizing tensegrity structures."

Two problems, both flagged by your own Doumont notes ("messages, not just words"; "prioritize the so-what"):

1. "Robust" is the wrong claim. Nothing in the body argues robustness — every body point argues speed/efficiency ("inefficient," "efficient optimization," "rapid iteration"), and your Review section says "makes tensegrity optimization much faster." The message and the body should carry the same word.
2. It's generic — it could headline almost any optimization paper. The specific, memorable claim from the manuscript is that the loop runs on real measured data at a small physical budget. Something like: "By closing the loop between multi-material 3D printing and Bayesian optimization, we can optimize tensegrity energy absorbers directly from real impact data — in dozens of prints, not thousands." (The manuscript's campaign is 59 specimens; concrete numbers make messages stick.)

Alignment with the manuscript direction (#75 / PR #76)

A few phrases in the draft contradict decisions already locked into the manuscript:

• "Combining real and simulated data…" (Closing). The manuscript's core positioning — repeated in the IDETC abstract too — is that the physical experiment is the source of truth, explicitly avoiding reliance on calibrated FE simulation (which struggles with FDM defects and TPU rate-dependence). Saying "real and simulated data" on stage undercuts your own novelty claim. Suggest: "real, measured impact data from additively manufactured structures."
• "Created with generative design" (Closing). The manuscript uses a parametric T3-prism design space (5 continuous variables: radius, height, twist, strut diameter, cable diameter) — "generative design" means something different to a design-automation audience and will read as an over-claim. Drop the term or say "parametric designs."
• The objectives never appear. The outline says "optimize" but never says for what. The manuscript pre-commits to a constrained multi-objective formulation: maximize specific energy absorption and compaction efficiency subject to a peak transmitted-force bound. The audience should hear at least the plain-language version ("absorb more energy per gram while capping the force that reaches the payload") — it's also what makes the lander hook pay off.
• The Need could borrow the manuscript's two-sided argument. Right now the actual situation is "hard to design/assemble, slow iteration." The manuscript's sharper version is a pincer: simulation can't be trusted (interfacial defects, TPU rate-dependence) and the design space is too big to brute-force physically. That two-sided need is exactly what makes BO + AM the inevitable answer, and it sets up both body points 2 and 3.
• Point 1 currently restates the Need ("current methods are inefficient"). Consider giving it its own content: why current methods are inefficient — i.e., the simulation-isn't-enough argument above — so it earns its slot as a body point rather than repeating the opening.

Applying your Doumont notes to this draft

• Adapt to the audience: IDETC-CIE track DAC-10 is a design-automation crowd — they already believe optimization works. Point 2 shouldn't spend time convincing them BO is useful in general; spend it on what's specific here (noisy physical measurements, small batches, multi-objective trade-off). Conversely, they may not know tensegrity, so point 1 / the hook carries that load.
• "Lead the audience to the need efficiently": the attention getter is currently the longest section of the outline (the three-step payload journey plus elaboration). Verbal communication is sequential, per your notes — consider compressing to one or two sentences of setup before the Super Ball Bot image does the work.
• Missing: evidence. The outline is methods-only — no slot for what you found. Doumont's Conclusion is "what the above means to the audience," which lands much harder when grounded in shown results. Even with the campaign in progress, plan a placeholder for data (drop-test traces, the Sobol/first-batch results from PR Add T3-prism (3-strut tensegrity) parametric CAD with Bambu PETG .gcode.3mf slice + re-importable project .3mf (H2D-only, supports enabled, scale 1.5× / cable_d 4.5 mm) + PLA-cables and PLA-struts/TPU-cables MM variants (with modeled-in PLA scaffo... #35/Add drop-test protocol, Edison synthesis, and first-data analysis #67, or an expected Pareto front of SEA vs. peak force). Otherwise the Conclusion's "may lead to… may help… may assist" stays hedged — three "may"s in a row weakens the so-what.
• The Close is elegant but generic ("cures to diseases, exploration of space…") — it could end any talk. A tighter Doumont-style close returns to the opening image: e.g., the next lander's energy absorber designed in weeks, not years. That reuses your hook as the bookend.

Minor items

• Spelling: it's Doumont (the PDFs and issue comments use "Duomont"). Worth fixing before slides/acknowledgments.
• The Need's desired situation includes "easy assembly," but no body point returns to it. Point 3 actually answers it (monolithic multi-material printing = no assembly) — say so explicitly to close that loop.
• When you're ready, it'd be worth transcribing the outline into presentation/doumont-presentation-template.md and your video notes into presentation/doumont-video-notes.md so they're version-controlled alongside the manuscript — happy to do that conversion if you'd like ("@claude transcribe the PDFs into the markdown files").

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Overall: strong first draft — the skeleton is right, the story arc is right, and most fixes are wording-level. The one structural addition I'd prioritize is a results/evidence slot before the Conclusion.

[sgbaird]

@claude implement all the feedback that you just mentioned

@claude transcribe like you mentioned

When done, link in your comment reply to the document so I can review

@claude aside: find the right YouTube links for the super tensegrity ball, a video we could show

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Done — feedback implemented, PDFs transcribed, videos found

• Gather context: download outline + Doumont notes PDFs, read PR files
• Transcribe Doumont video notes PDF into presentation/doumont-video-notes.md
• Transcribe outline into presentation/doumont-presentation-template.md with all review feedback applied
• Find YouTube links for the NASA Super Ball Bot tensegrity video
• Commit, push, and link documents for review

📄 Documents for review (commit d1591df)

• presentation/doumont-presentation-template.md — the outline transcribed into the Doumont template as Draft 2, with all 12 feedback items from my earlier review applied (sharpened main message, "real and simulated data" → real measured data, "generative design" → parametric designs, explicit objectives, two-sided Need, Point 1 given its own content, evidence/results slot before the Closing, bookended Close, DAC-10 audience adaptation, compressed attention getter, easy-assembly loop closed, Doumont spelling). A "Changes from Draft 1" section at the bottom lists every edit so you can quickly see what changed and revert anything you disagree with.
• presentation/doumont-video-notes.md — your notes PDF transcribed verbatim (lightly formatted), with the "Impressions" and "Questions" sections left open for @me-madsen.

Objectives and technical claims in Draft 2 are grounded in the abstract in this repo (idetc-abstract.tex): maximize specific energy absorption and compaction efficiency subject to a peak transmitted-force cap, physical experiment as the source of truth, qNEHVI for noisy parallel multi-objective BO.

🎥 Super Ball Bot videos (all links verified)

Video	Channel	Best for
Super Ball Bot	NASA Video (official)	The canonical overview — safest choice to show
HET2 SUPERball Bot NIAC Mission concept	NASA Video (official)	Mission-concept animation (Titan descent) — strongest hook visual
NASA Demonstrates Super Ball Bot Prototype	Wall Street Journal	Real prototype drop footage
NASA 360 Talks – Super Ball Bot	NASA eClips (archive)	Short talk format
Design of SUPERball v2	IEEE Spectrum	Newer v2 robot, more engineering detail

One caution: the "Super Ball Bot | NASA 360" result that shows up high in search (Fz2wVkb13v4) is a re-upload on an unofficial channel — prefer the official NASA Video links above for showing in the talk. My pick for the attention getter: the NIAC mission concept animation (drop onto a planetary surface, no parachute) for the hook, with the WSJ prototype footage as a backup if you want real hardware on screen. The top three are also embedded in the template's attention-getter section.

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[sgbaird]

@claude address the feedback below, then send for mock audience feedback via Edison analysis assuming different levels of familiarity with the base techniques described and different types of backgrounds, also different personalities in terms of the level of skepticism

[sgbaird]

Lean into the reusability of the planetary lander, I I.e, that it can withstand multiple drops, unlike perhaps some other alternatives to a tensegrity lander

[sgbaird]

There's a logical jump here. Pla + TPU would never be used. At least I don't think, in an actual planetary lander setup. However, this is a proxy system that can allow us to have some inspiration from tensegrity and prototype, a self-driving lab, or at least a close to autonomous system for the optimization of tensegrity inspired structures

[sgbaird]

The expensive part doesn't really matter. Even heavy duty simulations would probably fail in comparison to the experimental effort that we're currently undertaking

[sgbaird]

We can lean into the facts here that while assembling a single T3 prism by hand might not be too difficult, as we start moving into more complex structures and especially lattice structures, this would become extremely difficult and not particularly feasible

[sgbaird]

We're only presenting on a T3 structure optimization along with the fdm processing parameters like temperature, print speed, etc

The rest is future work

[sgbaird]

Do we want to make a fourth point which is the future applications for which this can be applied?

[sgbaird]

I think the point would be more so how simulations fall short of reality in the actual materials that would be used, meaning struts and cables probably made of steel or similar

[sgbaird]

Thousands is probably an overstatement. Maybe instead say hundreds that would be typical of traditional design of experiments over a relatively high dimensional space.

[sgbaird]

Let's also mention how honegumi was used to quickly scaffold and adapt to the Bayesian optimization script for our advanced optimization task. This is something that the audience would likely be interested in using themselves and we want to help them see that

[sgbaird]

Again I think saying years compared to weeks might be an overstatement. You could say in months instead of years or you could say in weeks instead of months or longer

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Working on it

• Verify all 12 review feedback items are applied in doumont-presentation-template.md (done in commit d1591df — confirmed against current file)
• Set up Edison Scientific client and prepare mock-audience personas — 6 personas spanning familiarity (novice → expert in BO / tensegrity / AM), background (design-automation prof, aerospace EDL engineer, AM researcher, grad student, FEA veteran, industry generalist), and skepticism (enthusiastic → highly skeptical / defensive)
• Upload presentation outline + abstract + Doumont notes to Edison and submit analysis job
• Wait for Edison results (~10 min initial wait, then 5-min polls)
• Fetch and commit all Edison artifacts
• Summarize mock audience feedback in this comment
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[sgbaird]

@claude Fetch summarize report

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Fetching the Edison mock-audience report

• Read Edison task ID (a2affcc8…) and job script from the branch
• Fetch the submitted analysis task — it failed on Edison's side (status fail, no failure reason recorded, no artifacts produced)
• Resubmit the same mock-audience analysis job — new task 91cadd05-fe5f-4ccb-9528-18987f5cd26c
• Poll until done (~10 min initial wait, then 5-min polls)
• Commit all Edison artifacts (report + raw task response) to presentation/edison-mock-audience/
• Summarize the mock-audience feedback here
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[sgbaird]

@claude fetch, summarize, report

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Fetching the Edison mock-audience report

• Read Edison task ID and job script from the branch
• Fetch the resubmitted analysis task 91cadd05… — failed again on Edison's side (status fail, no failure reason, sandbox never produced an environment frame — same signature as the first failure)
• Resubmit with the three documents inlined in the query instead of uploaded as files (the upload path is the most likely culprit) — new task 4949af58-f08a-4541-ad1c-1f0a95c6f07d, scripts + failed-task record committed in 2059bc6
• Wait ~10 min, then poll every 5 min until the task completes
• Commit all Edison artifacts to presentation/edison-mock-audience/
• Summarize the mock-audience feedback here
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[sgbaird]

@claude Probably you're not following the official file upload instructions. See your custom instructions. You often get tripped up on this without reading those instructions. Use context7 if you need

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Mock-audience report retrieved ✅ — and yes, the upload flow was wrong

• Read the official Edison file-management docs (+ Context7) — confirmed the mistake
• Check the pending inlined task 4949af58… — it succeeded; fetched the full 33.8k-char report
• Download and commit all trajectory artifacts (notebook + memory log)
• Fix edison_mock_audience_job.py to use the official upload flow for future runs
• Commit, push (f882ec5), and summarize below

You were right about the upload instructions

The two failed jobs called client.create_task(task_data, files=[...]) — that files= shortcut is not the documented path. The official flow is: upload each file first with client.store_file_content(name=..., file_path=..., description=...), then reference the returned IDs in the task request via runtime_config=RuntimeConfig(environment_config={"data_storage_uris": ["data_entry:<data_storage.id>", ...]}). I've reworked presentation/edison_mock_audience_job.py to do exactly that, so future runs won't hit the dead-sandbox failure. Meanwhile the inlined-documents resubmission from the last session completed successfully, so no new job was needed — results below.

📄 The report: mock-audience-feedback.md

Six personas reviewed the outline (skeptical BO professor, aerospace EDL engineer, AM/materials researcher, first-year grad student, defensive FEA veteran, friendly industry generalist). Each gives a first-person reaction, the message they'd repeat the next day (with distortions), top-3 Q&A questions in character, and their most pointed objection. Predicted reception: 5/10 as-is, 7–8/10 with the priority revisions.

Cross-persona themes (what multiple personas attacked):

1. "Dozens, not thousands" is currently an unsupported claim. Every persona can follow the design–print–test–learn loop, but the empty results slot means nobody can tell whether it worked. The skeptical BO professor would repeat the work as "standard qNEHVI applied to another application" and drop the efficiency claim entirely.
2. "Simulation can't be trusted" is too absolute — the FEA veteran's exact challenge: "You have shown that simulation is inconvenient, not that it cannot be trusted." The report notes the abstract's wording is already more defensible ("without relying on calibrated finite-element simulation") and suggests reframing it as a scoped cost decision — which matches your review comment on line 87 about the simulation-experiment gap needing justification.
3. BO needs a two-level explanation: one plain sentence + one visual for P2–P5, implementation details in backup slides for P1. The report even drafts the spoken sentence.
4. "Tensegrity-inspired" needs a physical-mechanism visual — the EDL engineer would remember "crush structures," the grad student can't distinguish it from an ordinary lattice.
5. The planetary framing outruns the demonstrated scope — the EDL engineer's severe challenge is exactly your "proxy system" review comment: label the lander as motivation, PLA–TPU as a prototype/self-driving-lab proxy.

Three priority revisions: (1) build the talk around a quantitative 3-slide results sequence (campaign ledger → budget-matched baseline comparison → measured feasible Pareto front); (2) replace the anti-simulation premise with the scoped calibration-cost argument; (3) a concrete minute-by-minute reallocation of the 15 minutes putting 5 min on results. There's also a 17-row table of every claim needing evidence, hedging, or a prepared backup slide — useful as a Q&A prep checklist.

Fit check: best-served persona is the friendly industry generalist; worst-served is the skeptical BO insider — and the report argues that's the wrong trade-off for DAC-10, recommending a two-layer talk (plain-language loop for everyone, budget/baseline/noise-model rigor visible for experts).

Notably, the mock audience independently converged on several of @sgbaird's review comments (proxy-system framing, simulation-gap justification, "hundreds not thousands" overstatement) — those review threads are still open on the template and I haven't applied them yet; say the word and I'll fold both the review comments and the report's priority revisions into a Draft 3.

Committed artifacts (f882ec5)

• mock-audience-feedback.md — the full report
• task-response.json — complete verbose task record
• artifacts/ — both trajectory files (sandbox notebook + agent memory log)
• edison_mock_audience_job.py — fixed to the documented upload flow
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[sgbaird]

@claude are you about to download and edit the PowerPoints linked in #83 ?

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No — editing the PowerPoints isn't something I'm doing or planning

• Check issue IDETC Presentation Preparation #83 for the linked PowerPoints
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Short answer: No. Nothing in my queued or in-progress work touches the two SharePoint decks linked in #83 (EMC 2026 and SDL101 workshop). My work on this PR has been limited to the markdown outline/notes files and the Edison mock-audience job — the only thing still open from earlier tasks is fetching that Edison report (task 4949af58…, being handled in the previous job run).

A few reasons I'd stay away from the decks unless you explicitly ask otherwise:

1. They were assigned to @me-madsen — the issue instructs them to download the EMC deck and build from its layouts in PowerPoint, and you noted you've "never had much luck with programmatic slide generation, so we'll stick with PowerPoint." Programmatic editing (e.g., python-pptx) would fight that decision and tends to mangle layouts/themes.
2. Access is doubtful anyway — those are personal OneDrive/SharePoint share links; from this environment I likely can't authenticate to download them.
3. The current plan already has a clean handoff: @me-madsen fills slides in PowerPoint from the version-controlled outline in presentation/doumont-presentation-template.md (Draft 2, with all review feedback applied).

If you do want me involved with the decks, the workable options are: (a) commit a copy of the .pptx to the repo (or attach it in a comment) and I can inspect/extract text or do targeted python-pptx edits you specify, or (b) I can generate speaker-notes/slide-title text from the outline for pasting into PowerPoint. Just say the word.

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[sgbaird]

@claude typo, I meant able to. It's a public share link, so I think you should at least be able to attempt downloading it directly from that box or OneDrive share link. Link. Even if you don't commit it due to file size.

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Yes — both decks download fine from the public share links ✅

• Attempt direct download of the EMC 2026 deck from the public share link
• Attempt direct download of the SDL101 workshop deck from the public share link
• Inspect both decks (slide count, layouts, theme, titles)
• Report results

You were right — no authentication needed. Appending &download=1 to each share link returns the raw .pptx directly. Both files downloaded and verified as valid PowerPoint files. Per your note I did not commit them, and that's forced anyway: at 417 MB and 1.3 GB they're far past GitHub's 100 MB hard limit (the size comes from embedded videos — the EMC deck alone carries a 115 MB .mov and a 113 MB .mp4).

To re-download locally:

curl -L -o emc2026.pptx "https://byu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/sbaird9_byu_edu/IQBkaWNY4Dc8SaIReVu16NeaAW-baU-Lv20tLTG_rZoMa2U?e=G3tQLZ&download=1"
curl -L -o sdl101.pptx "https://byu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/sbaird9_byu_edu/IQCPPLlTXZn2Sa3HxkIWn1cOAcNsTC-Zp5bZRzFJdqiKzz0?e=b4aUYB&download=1"

What's inside

	EMC 2026	SDL101 workshop
Size	417 MB	1.3 GB
Slides	60	260
Layouts / masters	10 / 1	64 / 3
Media files	109	415

EMC 2026 template details (the deck #83 tells @me-madsen to build from): 16:9 (13.33 × 7.50 in), theme "Custom Design" with Aptos Display / Aptos fonts. Accent palette: #156082 (blue), #E97132 (orange), #196B24 (green), #0F9ED5 (light blue), #A02B93 (purple), #4EA72E (light green); dark #0E2841. Layouts: Title Slide, Title Only (×3 variants), Custom Layout, Title and Content (×2), Blank (×2), Quote_Long.

Directly reusable slides for the IDETC talk (EMC deck, by slide number):

• 19–22 — the full BO explainer sequence: "BO works well in the limit of low data and many variables" → surrogate model + uncertainty → acquisition function → the iterative loop. This is exactly the "one plain sentence + one visual" two-level BO explanation the Edison mock audience asked for.
• 23–27 — the "real-world tasks require more than vanilla optimization" build, which motivates the noisy/multi-objective/constrained framing.
• 28 — the Honegumi slide, which directly serves the open review comment on line 130 of the template asking to feature Honegumi.
• 31 — "Maximize the strength of a 3D printed part as a function of internal geometry and printer settings" — almost verbatim this project's problem statement; slide 36 (analytic-benchmark comparison) is a good backup-slide pattern.
• 2–8 also model the full-sentence-title Doumont style throughout, so the Draft 2 preview sentences in doumont-presentation-template.md can drop into these layouts as titles directly.

Since download access is confirmed, I can now extract anything specific from either deck on request — slide text/speaker notes into markdown, specific images/figures (committable individually if under size limits), or a slide-by-slide mapping from the Draft 2 outline onto EMC layout names.

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[sgbaird]

@claude create a bare template that is essentially one of those ppts but without additional content. Commit that here

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Bare EMC 2026 template committed ✅

• Download the EMC 2026 deck from the public share link (needed a cookie jar across the SharePoint redirects this time)
• Strip all slides/media, keeping theme, master, and all 10 layouts
• Verify the bare template opens cleanly and is small enough to commit
• Commit and push the template to this branch

The file: presentation/emc2026-bare-template.pptx (commit b5dcc3d)

I used the EMC 2026 deck as the source, since that's the deck #83 designates as the template to build from. All 60 slides and their embedded media (the videos that made it 417 MB) were removed; everything that defines the template's look was kept:

	Original	Bare template
Size	417 MB	1.7 MB
Slides	60	0
Layouts	10	10 (all kept)
Theme / master	"Custom Design", Aptos fonts	intact
Format	16:9 (13.33 × 7.50 in)	unchanged

Opening it in PowerPoint gives an empty presentation — "New Slide" offers all ten EMC layouts (Title Slide, Title Only ×3, Custom Layout, Title and Content ×2, Blank ×2, Quote_Long) with the original theme colors (#156082 blue, #E97132 orange, etc.) and fonts. The 8 small images used by the master/layouts themselves (logos, backgrounds) were retained so the layouts render correctly; verified the file is a valid, uncorrupted .pptx with zero slide parts remaining.

@me-madsen can start slides for the IDETC talk directly from this file using the Draft 2 outline in doumont-presentation-template.md. If you'd rather have it as a true PowerPoint template file (.potx) or want the SDL101 deck stripped the same way, say the word.

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[sgbaird]

@claude apply the review feedback: #84 (comment)

[sgbaird]

Hey, not bad at first glance #84 (comment)

@claude place this into the deck. Marcus can make edits or rearrange things later or even hide it if we decide not to use it

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✅ Search-space figure placed into idetc-2026.pptx as new slide 14

• Read the OneDrive/SharePoint recipe (recovered from git history; it is not on this branch) and unlock PPT_EDIT_LINK
• Plan pass: download the stored deck (37 slides at start; the concurrent video job's tensologic slide was already in) and pick the insertion point
• Apply via the headless-browser web editor: new Title Only slide after slide 13, message title typed, fig-search-space.png uploaded, resized, and positioned
• Speaker notes added (figure legend, provenance, and a "feel free to move, retitle, or hide" note to Marcus)
• Verify against re-downloads of the stored file (three times, after each editing session)
• Commit the proof screenshot (ae4d01c) and rebase onto the concurrent job's push

Where it landed

Slide 14 of 38, immediately after "We built a closed-loop system to optimize energy and shock response as a function of geometry and 3D print processing parameters" and before the drop-tower block, so the geometry variables are on screen right when that sentence is spoken and before the BO explainer (now slides 22 to 25). Left visible, not hidden, per your note that Marcus can rearrange or hide it later.

• Title: "Five geometry parameters define every structure we print and test"
• Speaker notes: the five parameters with their campaign bounds, the fact that the four renderings are real printed Sobol-batch specimens, provenance (build_search_space_figure.py, bounds from bo/t3_prism_sobol_batch.py), and an explicit note to Marcus that moving/retitling/hiding is fine

Verification (against the stored file, not the editor)

Re-downloaded the stored blob after each session: the title and notes are character-exact, the embedded PNG is byte-exact (331,196 bytes, same SHA-256 as presentation/media/fig-search-space.png), and the picture sits 10.64 in wide, horizontally centered under the title band within 0.028 in.

Two things worth knowing

1. It took four editing sessions, all merged cleanly through co-authoring. The slide/title/figure landed in one pass, but sizing and positioning fought back: the numeric Size fields are invisible to Playwright until the contextual Picture tab is actually clicked (not just present), and the Arrange > Align Shapes flyout never became clickable headless, so final placement was a drag plus a measured arrow-key nudge (one press moves ~0.011 in), each step confirmed from a re-download. I've saved these gotchas to session memory so the next deck edit doesn't rediscover them; they'd also be worth adding to docs/onedrive-sharepoint-ppt-access.md when that doc lands on a branch.
2. While I was in the file, the other job's new tensologic fold-and-release clip was already on slide 5, and its push landed mid-task; I rebased this commit on top, so nothing of theirs was touched.

Repo change: just the proof screenshot at presentation/search-space-slide-screenshot.png (commit ae4d01c). The deck itself lives only on OneDrive.
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[me-madsen]

Thanks! Could you upload the video to the BYU VCL channel?

https://youtu.be/M4u7qwBbTxM link to the practice presentation on YouTube, given August 7th, 2026

[sgbaird]

@claude #84 (comment) looks overall really good. Perhaps an even better one would be a series of GIF animations visually showing changes to a specific parameter. Give that a try

[claude]

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✅ Five parameter-sweep GIFs built and committed (83c0152)

• Read the trigger request and the existing build_search_space_figure.py renderer
• Write a GIF-builder script that sweeps each of the five geometry parameters across its campaign bounds (others held at mid-range)
• Render the five GIFs and sanity-check them frame by frame
• Commit script + GIFs, push, and embed previews here
• Pick up the 18:15 fixed-mass comment (noted below, not baked into the GIFs)

One GIF per geometry parameter. Each sweeps its parameter from lower to upper campaign bound and back (cosine-eased, ~1 s pause at each bound) while the other four parameters hold at mid-range, with a live value readout, a slider showing where in the bounds the design sits, and the same dashed-guide vocabulary as the static figure (circumscribed circle for R, dimension line for H, arc for twist). All five share one camera and one mm scale, so they are honest side by side: the ground plane stays put while a structure grows, and a 25 mm footprint really is smaller than a 40 mm one.

Triangle radius R (25 to 40 mm)

Height H (60 to 110 mm)

Twist angle (40 to 80°)

Strut diameter (6 to 12 mm, rigid PLA)

Cable diameter (3 to 5.5 mm, flexible TPU)

Provenance and practicalities

• Geometry, bounds, colors, and the depth-sorted renderer are imported from build_search_space_figure.py, so the GIFs and the static figure cannot drift apart; bounds still trace to bo/t3_prism_sobol_batch.py, geometry to t3-prism.scad. Regenerate with presentation/build_search_space_gifs.py.
• Each GIF is 960×540 and 0.3 to 0.5 MB, so all five together add ~2 MB. PowerPoint plays animated GIFs natively, and the web editor's Insert > Pictures > This Device accepts .gif, so they can go into idetc-2026.pptx whenever you want. One caution for stage use: a GIF loops forever with no pause control, so it suits a slide the presenter talks over briefly (or the appendix), where the equivalent slide-19-style build animation would need PowerPoint animations instead.

On your 18:15 fixed-mass note

I saw the comment that the search space will be specified with a fixed-mass constraint (parameters not independently tunable, since weight dominates lander design). These GIFs deliberately do vary one parameter freely, since their job is teaching what each number does geometrically, and I did not bake a mass readout in: computing mass from idealized cylinders would put an unverified number on a slide asset (real prints have joint spheres, member overlaps, and infill). Two follow-ups I can do on request: add a live computed-mass readout to each GIF once there's an agreed mass model to cite, or build a constant-mass variant sweep (e.g. strut diameter up while cable diameter compensates) once that constraint is specified in bo/.

Not done (deliberately)

The GIFs are not inserted into idetc-2026.pptx. Slide placement is Marcus's call, and the natural home (the search-space slide 14 or the variables slide) already has the static figure; say the word and I'll swap or add via the web editor.
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[sgbaird]

Noting for ourselves that we'll want to specify that we constrain the search space to have a fixed mass so we can better compare the drop tower measurements and better mimic the real-world considerations for a planetary lander (weight is the most expensive thing); we're not free to tune the parameters independently of each other

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@claude I've gone through the slides as they were this morning in the video below, giving what I want to say on each slides, some notes for changes, and notes for me on items to change, improve, or look up. Download the video (either through YouTube or Box) and transcribe these items cleanly into a document or place I can review them. Make a checklist of my to-do items. Provide some places I can look to clarify the terms I needed clarification on, (i.e. defining transmissibility, classical definition of tensegrity, etc.). Ensure you transcribe about what I stated as wanting to say verbally during the presentation for each slide. You may provide some suggestions for saying things more smoothly, but for the most part keep what I said and write suggestions to the side or something.

https://youtu.be/-0qPEmmgSBA
https://byu.box.com/s/x0echlgvxop65spz58tfdzgtaxpx8iug

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Walkthrough transcribed into a reviewable document ✅

• Download the walkthrough video (the Box link worked directly from the runner: "Slide Review and Notes - 8-20-2026.mp4", 45 min 00 s, 2.8 GB; no Pi needed)
• Transcribe locally with faster-whisper (no waiting on YouTube caption processing) and correct voice-to-text mishaps for intent
• Download the current idetc-2026.pptx via PPT_EDIT_LINK to map the walkthrough onto the actual slides
• Extract and analyze frames to key each spoken segment to its slide (25 timestamped screenshots committed)
• Write the per-slide "what I want to say" scripts in your voice, with suggestions kept to the side
• Compile your to-do checklist with timestamp links into the video
• Add reference pointers for the terms you flagged
• Commit and push (bd1f63b)

📄 The document: presentation/slide-walkthrough-2026-08-20.md

It has four parts, in the order you'll probably use them:

1. Your to-do checklist (top of the doc), grouped into slide/deck changes, things to look up before presenting, delivery/practice/props, and team-discussion items. Every item links to the exact moment in the YouTube video it came from.
2. Terms to clarify, with places to look: transmissibility and attenuation (your peak-ratio description is the right shape; the doc notes the one nuance worth saying on stage and points at regen_data_slide_figures.py, which computes exactly that ratio), the classical definition of tensegrity (Fuller's patent, Skelton & de Oliveira's class-1 definition, Pugh's "islands of compression" phrasing) plus the tensegrity-inspired distinction, TPU (it is thermoplastic polyurethane, you had it right), the Pajunen paper for the polyamide grade, metamaterials, traditional design of experiments (the free NIST/SEMATECH handbook is the fastest read), f(x) and x for the surrogate slide, the acrylic-plate shock-transmission question (your magnesium/aluminum recollection matches shock-fixture practice; the concept to search is mechanical impedance), and pronunciation of "Bayesian."
3. Slide-by-slide sections: each one has a screenshot, a timestamp link, the spoken script in your words (cleaned of filler and transcription errors, content untouched), then your change notes, and where I had one, a clearly separated Suggestion so it never mixes into your script. Example: your novelty framing on the dual-nozzle slide ("the part I'm currently stumbling over most") is written out from what you worked through on camera, with a suggested transition sentence beside it.
4. A voice-to-text corrections appendix ("10 segredease" → tensegrity, "planetary ladder" → lander, "two laws of printing" → dual-nozzle printing, etc.) so you can trust what the cleaned quotes changed.

Three things worth flagging now

• The stored deck has grown since your recording. Your PowerPoint showed "of 38" slides on camera; the file behind the edit link now has 46 (the extras are hidden slides at the end, added by earlier sessions). The doc keys everything to slide titles, which are stable.
• The duplicate data slides you spotted are real: the stored deck has "We measure the jolt..." twice (slides 20 and 21, identical) plus an untitled leftover at slide 19 whose figure still has the old "thousandths of a second (ms)" axis. Deleting the two extras is on your checklist; happy to do it via the web editor if you'd rather ("@claude delete the duplicate jolt slides").
• The "awkward slide" you agreed with Sterling about omitting is the hidden "Tensegrity's unique properties" slide; its two bullets now live in your spoken scripts for the Steve Mould wrap-up and the assembly slide, so nothing is lost by dropping it.

Other things I can pick up from your checklist on request: the peak-marker lines and ratio annotation on the jolt figure (a small edit to the existing figure script), the workflow-slide icon swaps (printed specimen / drop tower / black box), and the higher-quality logo image.
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@claude find in this repository where this kit is and what model it is of. We should have purchased it and provided a link to it. I'd like to know what to call it. We think it may be of the Nasa Superball bot configuration, but we are not certain of this.

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Found it — the kit is the Tensegrity Adventures Icosahedron Kit, and yes, it's the SUPERball configuration ✅

• Look at the photo of the kit (plus close-up crops of the end caps)
• Search the repo files for kit/purchase references
• Search issues and PR comments for where it was purchased/linked
• Verify against both candidate vendors' product pages
• Determine the model and whether it matches the NASA SuperBall bot configuration

What it is

Product: Icosahedron Tensegrity Kit — Tensegrity Adventures, $27.00 (their site currently shows it sold out, consistent with it having been bought). The kit ships six 9 in × ¼ in wood dowel struts and 24 elastic tendons plus a tendon assembly/removal tool, and the photo matches on every visible detail: six light wood dowels, red braided elastic tendons, and the vendor's signature yellow end caps. The close-up of your photo shows each cap has four cord-winding drums with the tendon ends wrapped around them — that's Tensegrity Adventures' knot-free tension-adjustment system, which is exactly what their "tendon assembly tool" services. Four tendons per strut end is also the node valence of a 6-bar icosahedron (24 tendons × 2 ends ÷ 12 strut ends = 4), so the caps even confirm the topology by themselves.

What to call the structure: the 6-bar (6-strut) tensegrity icosahedron, also called the expanded octahedron. And your hunch is right: this is the same configuration as NASA's SUPERball Bot, which is a 6-bar icosahedron spherical tensegrity. On stage you can accurately say "a commercial kit built into the 6-bar tensegrity icosahedron, the same configuration NASA used for the SUPERball Bot lander."

Where it lives in the repo

• Issue #55 "Purchase a few tensegrity build kits for manual assemblies" (assigned to @achris0520) is the purchase request. It has no comments, so the actual order confirmation was never posted there.
• PR #56 (still open, not merged to main) carries the recommendation doc reviews/tensegrity-build-kits.md on branch copilot/suggest-tensegrity-kits. Its row 1 is this exact kit, recommended precisely because it "builds the 6-bar SUPERball / icosahedron," with the purchase link and price ($27, verified 2026-05-15). That's the link you were remembering.

⚠️ One correction worth making: the repo has been calling this ball "TensoLogic," and that's wrong

I pulled frames from presentation/media/clip-tensologic-fold-release.mp4 — the ball Marcus folds and releases in that video is this same kit (same yellow winding-drum caps, red tendons, wood dowels). But the TensoLogic Premium Kit (the other kit in the recommendation doc, Amazon B091BFKXRR) is a different product: 12 long + 6 short pine sticks, rubber bands, and plain PVC caps — none of which appear in the photo or the video. The mislabel has propagated to:

• The YouTube video title itself ("Super Ball Bot-style Tensegrity structure (tensologic)...", y8KjBRH4Wis)
• presentation/video-snips.md (the fold-and-release section) and the media filename clip-tensologic-fold-release.mp4
• "TensoLogic ball" mentions in presentation/slide-walkthrough-2026-08-20.md and presentation/feedback-video-2026-08-18.md
• Likely the speaker notes on slide 5 of idetc-2026.pptx (added when the clip was inserted)

Caveat on the "TensoLogic assembly videos" referenced elsewhere in the deck (the 12x/48x timelapses): I did not re-check which kit appears in those, so they may be correctly labeled if a TensoLogic kit was also purchased and assembled on camera. Only the fold-and-release ball is confirmed misattributed.

I didn't change any files, since this was an identification question. If you want, I can sweep the repo docs to rename it (say the word: "@claude fix the TensoLogic naming"), and the slide 5 speaker note can be corrected through the web editor at the same time. The kit is also unattributed in the deck right now; if this ball appears on stage or on a slide, the credit line would be "Icosahedron Tensegrity Kit, Tensegrity Adventures" with the link above in the speaker notes.
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@claude, rather impressive actually #84 (comment)

For kicks and giggles, let's try making one that dynamically goes through each of those changes. I.e. first triangle radius adjusted, then height, then twist angle, etc. all in one continuous motion (one after each other). I.e. so I could say something like: "We vary the spread of the base, the height of the structure, the angle of twist, ...." etc. Maybe don't have it reset the structure after each dial changes i.e. the dials start at the minimum parameters and then each one is dialed up one by one)?

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✅ One continuous sweep, all five dials turned up one by one (00d625f)

• Read the trigger request and the existing GIF builder (build_search_space_gifs.py)
• Read the shared renderer (build_search_space_figure.py) and plan the sequential sweep
• Write the combined-GIF builder: start at all-minimum, dial each parameter up to its max one after another (radius → height → twist → strut → cable), no resets
• Render and sanity-check frames (checked six checkpoints; fixed one label/value collision on the active dial row)
• Commit, push, and embed a preview here

The GIF

Exactly as you described: the structure starts at the all-minimum design (R 25 mm, H 60 mm, twist 40°, strut 6 mm, cable 3 mm) and each dial is turned up to its bound in sequence, with nothing resetting in between, so it ends at the all-maximum design and holds there before the loop restarts. The stage order matches your narration line, and the caption under the structure changes with each stage so the animation says the same thing you will: "We vary the spread of the base… the height of the structure… the angle of twist… the thickness of the rigid struts… the thickness of the flexible cables."

Details that should make it easy to present over:

• The dial panel shows the whole story at a glance. All five sliders are visible the entire time: finished dials sit pinned at their max in dark gray, the active dial is highlighted in the accent blue with a live value readout, and dials still waiting sit pale at their minimums. So even mid-animation the audience can see what has already been dialed up and what is still to come.
• Pacing is built for narration: each dial takes about 1.5 s to turn, holds about 0.7 s when it lands, and the start and end states hold about 1.6 s each. The full cycle is roughly 12 s, which fits one spoken sentence per parameter.
• Same camera, same mm scale, same guides. One fixed camera covers every frame (sized to the all-max design), so the ground plane stays put while the structure grows, and the active parameter gets the same dashed guide vocabulary as before (circumscribed circle for radius, dimension line for height, arc for twist, leader arrows for the member diameters).

Files (commit 00d625f)

• presentation/media/gif-param-sequence.gif — 960×540, 110 frames, 0.92 MB
• presentation/build_search_space_sequence_gif.py — regenerates it; imports the geometry, bounds, colors, and renderer from build_search_space_figure.py and the per-parameter guides from build_search_space_gifs.py, so all three assets stay consistent

Not done (deliberately)

Not inserted into idetc-2026.pptx — placement is your call, and this one is a natural candidate to replace the static search-space figure on slide 14 rather than sit beside it. Say the word and I'll swap it in via the web editor. Same stage caution as the five individual GIFs: a GIF loops forever with no pause control, so it suits a slide you talk over once and advance past.
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[me-madsen]

@claude remove the text at the bottom saying "we..." that is distracting. Remove the "one dial at a time so nothing resets". On the dials include the minimum parameter (i.e. triangle radius would have 25mm on the left and 40 mm on the right) and maximum parameter.

Generate another gif that looks just like this generator, and starts off on the end configuration of this last one, and then have it adjust parameters to each of our 8 SOBOL +S0 prism designs in sequential order. (again, don't add extra words to the slide lol). Ensure the gif is high enough quality that it looks as clean as possible on a big screen (i.e. fullscreen slide)

Also give an image of each of those 9 designs on one slide with the same animation style. Omit the dials on this slide

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✅ Sequence GIF revised, seed-designs tour GIF and 9-design still built (e9d6db6)

• Read the builder scripts and pull the 9 seed designs (S0 + Sobol 1-8) from bo/t3-prism-bo-batch.csv (commit 18c41a6)
• Revise the sequence GIF: caption and "one dial at a time, nothing resets" removed, min/max bounds added at each dial's ends
• Build the designs-tour GIF starting from the sequence GIF's end configuration
• Build the one-slide image of all 9 designs, no dials, no text
• Sanity-check frames, commit, push, embed previews

1. The revised sequence GIF

Both requested text elements are gone (the animation now carries no words at all outside the dial panel), and every dial shows its lower bound at the left end and upper bound at the right end. I also bumped it from 960x540 to 1920x1080 so it matches the new GIF on a fullscreen slide.

2. The designs-tour GIF (new)

gif-designs-tour.gif picks up exactly where the sequence GIF ends: it opens on the all-max configuration, then morphs through the nine campaign seed designs in specimen order (S0 first, then Sobol specimens 1 through 8), holding about a second on each. All five dials move together during each transition, with the same bound labels at their ends and no added words. So the two GIFs play as one continuous story: dial each parameter up one by one, then tour the designs we actually printed. 1920x1080, 154 frames, 4.6 MB, ~28 s per loop.

3. All nine designs on one slide (new)

fig-seed-designs.png: same rendering style, no dials, no text. The grid runs in specimen order left to right, top to bottom (S0 top-left, Sobol 8 bottom-right), and every cell shares one mm scale, so the size differences between designs are real.

Files (commit e9d6db6)

• presentation/build_search_space_sequence_gif.py — revised (2.4 MB GIF regenerated)
• presentation/build_designs_tour_gif.py — new; seed values are the nine CSV rows verbatim, geometry/renderer imported from build_search_space_figure.py
• presentation/build_seed_designs_figure.py — new; imports the seed list from the tour script so the still and the GIF cannot drift apart

Notes

• The dial values on the tour GIF read to the displayed precision (e.g. S0 lands on "32 mm / 90 mm / 60° / 7.9 mm / 5.4 mm"), which are the rounded true specimen values; exact values live in the script and the CSV.
• Not inserted into idetc-2026.pptx — say the word and I'll place any or all three via the web editor (the tour GIF is a natural follow-on slide after the sequence GIF, and the still could replace or back up the current search-space slide).
• Fixed-mass caveat from Sterling's 08-20 note still applies to all of these: the seeds were generated with independently varied parameters, so nothing here shows a constant-mass constraint.
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[me-madsen]

@claude make the first two gifs into videos. Double check that the size and placement of the prism in the animation is in the same placement and orientation at the end of the first one and start of the second so I can transition between videos smoothly/without detection. Also I noticed the orange of the tendons sometimes overlaps or slips through the black of the struts during some parts of the animation, can that be fixed? Create the image you made before of the 9 designs without these orange parts slipping out two. I.e. this:

Place these into the slideshow in place of slides 25 and 26 (currently the gifs).

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Videos are in the deck, occlusion artifact fixed everywhere ✅

• Reproduce the tendon-through-strut artifact and fix it in the shared renderer
• Render the parameter-sequence animation as an MP4 (1080p, 30 fps)
• Render the designs-tour animation as an MP4 (same camera)
• Verify the prism at the end of video 1 exactly matches the start of video 2 (pixel-exact, asserted in the build script)
• Regenerate the 9-designs still (and every other search-space asset) with the fix
• Commit and push assets + scripts (2f1abec, dd6cf4f)
• Swap the two GIF slides and the still slide in idetc-2026.pptx via the web editor
• Verify every edit against re-downloads of the stored file

The occlusion fix

The renderer sorted segments by their centerline depth, so a thin cable whose centerline sat marginally in front of a thick strut drew over it even though the strut's surface bulges past the cable. That is exactly the slipping you circled. Segments now sort by their front surface (centerline depth plus radius) with finer subdivision, in build_search_space_figure.py, so the fix propagates to every GIF, still, and video that imports it. All five per-parameter GIFs, both big GIFs, and both stills are regenerated. The fixed 9-designs figure:

The videos

video-param-sequence.mp4 (13 s, 0.7 MB) and video-designs-tour.mp4 (22 s, 1.3 MB), both 1920x1080 H.264, built by build_search_space_videos.py. Also smoother than the GIFs: motion frames land on the 30 fps grid at the same pacing.

The seamless transition is guaranteed by construction, not eyeballing. Both videos share one camera (the bounding box is the union over every frame of both animations, same margins), and the boundary frame is shared code: video 1 ends on, and video 2 opens on, a frame rendered by the same function with the same parameters (all dials at max, tour-style panel). The script asserts the two renders are pixel-identical before encoding, and this run passed. Each side holds that frame for about 1.2 s, so advancing during the hold is undetectable. One consequence: the prism in the sequence video sits slightly smaller than in the old sequence GIF, because the shared camera must also fit the tour's tallest designs. That is the price of an exact join.

Placed into idetc-2026.pptx

Your "slides 25 and 26" were slides 24 and 25 in the stored file by the time I opened it (live edits shift numbering); the 9-designs still sat right next to them on slide 26, so all three got swapped:

Slide	Was	Now
24	sequence GIF	video-param-sequence.mp4, full-bleed
25	tour GIF	video-designs-tour.mp4, full-bleed
26	old 9-designs PNG	fixed fig-seed-designs.png, full-bleed

All via the headless web editor (insert, delete the old object, size 13.33", align center/middle, provenance note in the speaker notes). Verified against re-downloads of the stored file: both MP4s and the PNG are byte-exact (SHA-256 match), the old GIFs are gone, all three objects are full-bleed within 0.02 in, and the notes match (PowerPoint autocapitalized one word in slide 26's note). A whole-deck fingerprint diff confirms only slides 24 to 26 changed by me; slide 18 also changed during the session, but that was you editing live (your new title and picture there are untouched).

Worth knowing

• The videos are muted by nature (no audio track) and play on click by default. If you want them to start automatically on slide entry, set Playback > Start: Automatically in desktop PowerPoint; the web editor has no playback-start control.
• The web editor has no poster-frame control, so each video shows its own first frame, which works out fine here (video 1 opens on the all-minimum design, video 2 on the shared all-max frame).
• Slide 23's static search-space figure still embeds the pre-fix rendering with the same orange slipping. The repo copy is already regenerated; say the word and I'll swap it into the deck the same way.
• One dead end mid-run for the record: the editor popped a Trim Video dialog that blocked clicks until handled, which is why the apply took a few passes. Each pass was verified against the stored file before the next.
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@claude for this figure you've previously produced, I want it updated so that the legend for top and bottom sensor do not overlap with the graph. Let this be a bit more spacious. I'd like to use it on a slide to explain attenuation. Double check if our attenuation measurements are comparing the peaks of acceleration for the bottom and top sensors (i.e T = a_top/a_bottom). A nice graphic for that could be helpful.

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Attenuation figure reworked, and the metric definition verified ✅

• Read presentation/regen_data_slide_figures.py (the script that builds fig-attenuation-filtered.png)
• Find where attenuation/transmissibility is actually computed and verify the peak-ratio definition (checked drop_test_60in_5felts_analysis.py on the PR Add drop-test protocol, Edison synthesis, and first-data analysis #86 branch, the analysis for this exact campaign)
• Rework the figure: legend clear of the traces, more spacious layout
• Add the explanatory graphic: sensor-placement schematic, peak markers with dashed guide lines, and the T = â_top / â_bottom annotation with real values
• Regenerate from the committed campaign data and verify visually
• Pick up your 23:30 follow-up ("remove that title that says 'The jolt'") in the same pass
• Commit and push (105b8e4)

The answer to your double-check: yes, it is a peak ratio, with three details worth knowing

Verified against the campaign analysis code (drop_test_60in_5felts_analysis.py, the script that produced the numbers for this exact campaign): t_ch5 = top peak / CH5 peak. So T = â_top / â_bottom is the right shape. The details:

1. Both peaks are taken on SAE J211 CFC-180 filtered signals (the same class as the peak-force constraint), not raw and not CFC-1000.
2. The top value combines the top sensor's three axes (the vector magnitude of CH2/CH3/CH4), not the vertical channel alone. My earlier walkthrough notes said "CH4 as the top vertical channel", which was wrong; I've corrected that paragraph in slide-walkthrough-2026-08-20.md. For these drops the vertical channel alone would give T ≈ 0.94 to 0.97, while the three-axis version gives 1.03 and 1.01, so the distinction matters when you quote a number.
3. Each peak is the largest excursion within 1.5 ms of impact, so the two peaks do not have to happen at the same instant.

One thing to be ready for on stage: for both specimens shown, T comes out slightly above 1 (1.03 and 1.01), and the campaign write-up's mean for this setting is about 1.04. So this figure honestly shows near-unity transmission, not attenuation. That is fine for explaining the metric (the annotation makes the ratio concrete), but if the spoken line is "closer to zero is better," expect someone to ask why the example sits at 1.03.

The new figure

What changed: the legend moved to the top margin, fully clear of the traces; a schematic on the left shows where the two sensors sit (bottom input sensor on the base plate, tri-axis sensor at a top vertex, impact arrow from below) using the same prism renderer as the search-space slides; each panel marks both peaks with dots and dashed guide lines, prints the peak values, and states T = â_top / â_bottom with the computed ratio; one shared x-axis label instead of two; and the caption records the filter class and the 1.5 ms window so the figure is self-documenting in Q&A.

Two side effects you should know about (105b8e4)

• The filter itself was corrected. The script's CFC filter used a Butterworth at 1.65x the class number and then filtfilt, which is the known issue Better understanding the drop tower analysis #94 finding: about 20 percent too narrow. It now uses the J211-1 Appendix C coefficients, so displayed peaks changed (CFC-180 bottom peak went from 432 to 532 G). This regenerated all three figures from regen_data_slide_figures.py, so the copies of fig-jolt-and-ringing.png and fig-standard-filter.png embedded in idetc-2026.pptx are now stale relative to the repo. Say the word and I'll swap all three into the deck via the web editor.
• "The jolt (first 2 ms)" panel title is removed from fig-jolt-and-ringing.png per your follow-up comment. I read that as the figure's panel title; if you meant the slide title in the deck ("We measure the jolt that reaches the top..."), tell me and I'll change it in the deck instead.

Not done deliberately: nothing was placed into idetc-2026.pptx; slide placement is yours.
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Also remove that title that says "The jolt."