13. From Tutorials to Tools

Following all the research into metaphors and a more abstract aim for my project, I have been unsure that the piratical work and concepts are as relevant as before. I will keep them in mind as I work on my proposal as they may come back into focus as time goes on. Here are some tutorials I have bookmarked as useful depending on the direction of the project. 

With the Ancient light concept, I could make it more conceptual, even trying to think about the internal workings of a sun, creating the same concept but in a more abstract manner. Below is a really good atmosphere tutorial that would be useful in creating glow and the right lighting if I did choose to carry on with the sun project.   

The below tutorial would be handy for making my atom model more artistic and eye catching, I am still interesting in creating the hydrogen model, I have had some concepts about using flowers as the elements versus the traditional 'solar system' approach. 

Elemental Flowers

The concept of using flowers is to represent the elements with a memory based aim. This coincides with some journals that I have sound suggesting that lifelong learning being liked to the mental models we do form when reading and absorbing. Its these abstract visuals that we can call upon to remember how things work or interact with each other. There is some more information in my sketch book.

Th basis is that the petals represnt the electrons and the seeds represent the neutrons and protons

The stability of  elements is reflected in how easily the flowers fall apart.

More work is needed on this concept, as I find that is is more coding the information or projecting onto know it rather than finding closer commonalties that link them visually.

The final tutorial that I have found would again be useful for the Ancient light concept, I will leave it here for now untill the direction is more clear, I feel that doing the proposal is turning up new sources and I would like to keep the practical experiments relevant to save on time that is so precious after not being well.