For the past few days I’ve been taking a training on how to run the 1st and 10 yellow line that you see during football games. When you are watching the game, it seems pretty simple, but when you learn how it works, it is actually quite detailed. I’m not sure exactly how much I can write about the process, but once I get approval I’ll give a full analysis of what goes on behind the scenes. In a nutshell, you basically draw a virtual field on the screen that serves as your computer field, but also accounts for when the camera zooms in or moves around. You then simply choose a yard line for the 1st down line, and the computer will then replace the green of the field for that yard line with the yellow line. You define the colors to replace as daytime games, clouds, stadiums, snow, etc. all give off a different color shade, and the computer literally fills in the yellow line. Hopefully I can write more about it, but that should give you a quick overview of what I’ve been up to during the days this week.