So far the Metaphor Machine project has been going very well! We have been making great progress and here are some pictures and videos of it so far.

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So far I have been working on part of the construction of our actual machine, including the little pathways for the marbles so they can roll through and have a purpose and on the side I am working on creating small plastic trees, out of a 3D pen.

Being from the Xinhai revolution, we are currently studying how the opium and emporers impacted China. The group works great together aswell and we have some chemistry from knowing eachother for a year, and we always have something to do. Sometimes we have to do work that’s not very fun to do, but we always make it work.

There are some very interesting metaphors in here, tieing in to the 3D pen work with trees and crops, there is going to be water flowing through them, therefore creating a effect like there was in one of China’s famines in the revolution. We also have a set of moving gears in our machine, that will get slowed/stopped by some paper poppies, because opium comes from the stem of opiate poppies, and opium was shipped from the west to china so the people and rulers could become weak and the west could take over.

This will be updated, don’t worry!

So long,

Quinn,

So in Scimatics we have been working on our “Dream Houses” for a while. Basically we got these packages where we worked on graphed house designes, then we designed our own and had to make it in a program that could show you what the house actually looked like.

The House:

So the program we chose for it was Minecraft and we used it because the graph uses little squares that are similar to the blocks in minecraft, so it was easier to make. And here it is,

As you can see, it is a beautiful log house selling for $2 million and the process was tricky. I don’t have anymore photos at the moment but you can see the detailing and it is an exact representation of our blueprint. So Michael, Reid and I made a great house and a great presentation. I hope you learned that you can get creative with different programs, even if it is designed for a different purpose like minecraft.

So long

Quinn,

In class and for homework we have been working on a “Visual Essay” so to start the process of making this essay, we use the app Explain Everything

This app is very helpful because you can animate pictures and record while having a voiceover and drawings and soo much more, but I wont get too into this because I am going to share my Railroad Visual Essay drafts with you!

First Draft:

So here is my first draft, the process of creating this was very silent, and at the time when I thought about it I said to my self “it’ll be fine” but it wasn’t quite at the level I wanted it to be, especially because there were long pauses with almost nothing there and I know I could go a step further. In this draft I do appreciate my pictures and animations and the one I’m most proud of is all of these little homes dotting Britain. But  back to the quietness, I thought for my final and second draft I could fill up these spaces with more talking and pictures, aswell as animation and if you watch both videos, you can see a big difference.

So after all that I decided to begin my Second Draft

Second Draft:

In this second draft I show many changes and I show the effect of the railway way better in my and my classmates opinions. This second post had more pictures and animation along with wayy more voiceover to fill those empty gaps. So I guess it really changed.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

-Quinn