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+## What is this?
+A small tool to make testing out the positions of volumes for a gesture system I'm working on easier, for an open source project called aardvark, you can find it 
+[here](https://github.com/aardvarkxr/aardvark)
+
+## How do I use this?
+Move the volumes around using the buttons on the display, press "log transforms" when you're finished and pop the formatted log into the dictionary in aardvark\websrc\default_hands\src\default_hands_gesture_volumes.ts! easy!