Here’s our mockup for how our scent clock will work:
Scents of Time
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Theory of Relativity
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010According to the Theory of Relativity, time is not universal and does not flow at a fixed rate. No matter how many computers have their time set automatically by Apple, it’s always different for each one.
Time and speed are coupled– when a person goes fast, time goes slow and vice versa. In Radiolab, they demonstrated this by going to Central Park together, syncing their watches, and having one person strap on a turbo-charged jet-pack and blasting off into space, while the other person stayed stationary. After the rocketman returned, they compared watches and they were not in sync as we would normally expect. The rocketman’s watch was seven minutes slower than the stationary man.
I found a website (probably meant for kids, but everyone’s a kid in their own way) that does a nice job demonstrating time and speed’s affect on what we perceive.
Flipbook Brainstorming
Monday, January 25th, 2010For our first Methods of Motion assignment, I’d like to make a flipbook. I was thinking of animating an apple falling from a tree.
- Apple is hanging happily on the tree branch
- Ant walks over and bites the stem of the apple until he falls
- Or I can show the apple growing and when he gets too fat he’ll fall
- Apple shows signs of distress as he plummets to his death
- Spider sees distress and spins cobwebs to save him
- Spider web snaps, apple falls again
- Bird tries to grab it but fails
- Caterpillars form a line to reach out for him but he’s too heavy
- Apple falls on a sheep and thinks he’s safe
- Hippo comes around and eats him
- The end