DSDN 142 Project 3 interim presentation

Yesterday I had an interim presentation to the class about my ideas for the third project.  Due to my busy week my ideas were not yet fully formed, but from what I come up with so far the strongest metaphor for a loop was the racing car track.

When we first broke off into our groups to discuss our ideas the group suggested trying to make the track using slot cars.  I thought this was a cool idea and so did the tutors but due to the probably high cost and my little knowledge of slot cars the idea was dismissed.  Instead I decided to show my metaphor through a short animation.

When I went up to present my idea to the whole class the idea of using fuel was thought to be a bit too much for the loop and so was taken out, instead just focusing on the laps left which gave a clearer idea of how the variables change over time.  Also I have to come up with a way to show the laps left without using numbers as the tutors that using numbers would be to obvious and that a more subtle way of showing the laps left would produce a better result.  

Overall the tutors thought my metaphor to be very strong which makes me confident going further into this project.