Blog Post #5 Due 9/22

Blog Post #5

Chase Trinklein

Our idea is a portrayal of a paradise simulator.  So what our project is made to do is accomplish our mission statement of taking patients minds off of what they're going through by placing them somewhere else and creating something positive for the patient to look at.  So our structure will be a triangle like room that will be made with shifting or rotating triangles to create different images of certain paradise places.  So the whole triangle like contraption will all rotate at once to change images or locations so to speak almost like an electronic billboard.  Two positives that were said by our peer critique was that it would help to capture the patients mind and bring them to a happy place by Morgan, and another good by Emma and Lindze that the in air and or wheeled designs will help with the small space at the center and help to transfer it and grow it outside the center as well.  Our peer critique group helped us to realize that we should expand the variation of locations because everyones paradise isn't the same.  Also, they pointed out that it would be better to have smaller but more detailed triangles all moving in a line for better efficiency. Our next step will be to start designing a layout for the project of what we want it to look like. Then we will need to scale our project so that we can begin working on our first model.  Once we have our first model it will be far easier to advance from there.