Friday, June 20, 2008

Further Notes on the Model

  • The domineering catwalk-come-dinning-table clearly states what these businesspeople are into – designer wares.
  • The tessalating tectures seem to have worked well in the model and convey the feeling of "movement".
  • The sheer size of the two main elevators symbolises the POWERFULNESS of these people.
  • Versace is a fashionista and appearances (especially entrances) mean everything - that is why her movers are rotating to keep spectators in awe.
  • Whereas Jobs is more concerned about efficiency and getting there fast - his movers are fast and take him straight to his destination.

Jobs' Space

  • Privacy was a concern for access to the management level, therefore an almost invisible elevator was placed to the right of the moving staircase (you should be able to just make out the sides). This elevator takes passengers straight to the centre of the room (no need to waste time walking). Entrance to the floor is also invisible.

  • The elevator to the third floor broke. I don't know what happened but you keep falling through it. I tried fixing this a few times but I think the static mesh was wrong and I didn't have enough time. You'll have to fly to the third floor.
  • Get off the small elevators quickly or you will get very frustrated very quickly! Could not for the life of me figure out how to pause elevators at keys, even after extensive wiki searching. (Was too late to ask fellow students.)

Jobs' Elevator

Creating the elevator - when subtracting the “apple core” from the Apple icon all adjacent faces affected by the subtraction which were previously internal needed to be reversed to external (as outlined in my SketchUp tip also). This required me to individually select more than 200 faces (at a guess) and right-click > reverse faces. Shortly after beginning this arduous task I imported the model into SketchUp to check out what implications the reverses faces had. Turns out the reverse faces makes both the internal (apple core) and external (Apple icon) walls invisible, meaning that the passenger feels like they are only standing on a platform and can see all around. I decided to keep this handy feature as I thought it would appeal to Steve Jobs’ technologically-fantastical and playful side. (Although such invisible walls are impossible to create in the real world it is an idea that Job’s could have easily thought up and make a reality).

Although not really relating to power, it reflects Job’s desire for good design and gives him a commanding view of the world around him.

Versace's Space

  • The spiral staircase is a little whack on it's return journey. It was supposed to be an elegant entrance to the meeting space, contradictory to that of Job's "straight-line method".
  • The cylinders sticking up out of the floor are meant to be stands for models to get pinned up on or measured.


P.S After reviewing Russell’s mover tutorial (on Saturday) I now realise the fundamental error in ALL my movers! That is – not retracing the mover’s return journey. I would set the keys 1, 2, 3 for example and leave it at that, not counting back down to the base. OMG I am a dumbass, but that’s what you get when you run out of time.

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