CPS week8

Context

Time is something that we can’t be more familiar with, but it is also something we can’t see and hear. “Time” is a term we create to describe this kind of amazing stuff. It is like water to waterwheel that pushes it move forward. The most interesting thing is that no one can change time. What has happened can not be undo and future is unknown to anyone. Under which circumstance, “Time machine” becomes a popular topic that widely explored in literature and films. Speaking of time machine,  I am curious about how people go back to the past or their future and try to make some 3D simple animation about time.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g3086/best-time-travel-movies/?slide=30

Method

Wave is very similar to time, it has same state when it comes to top and bottom, just like some particular moment in a person’s life. I would try to play with the deformation of wave in maya and figure out what surprises I can get from the experiments.

Reflection & Response

The first experiment is about the life of different people. The wave is like time, the wave pops up from a straight line, which represents the birth of an individual. As the wave moves, different life goes to different paths, so the waves varies a lot during the process. In the end, all the waves finishes at the same point. This means that even though everyone lives various life, but we all have a same ending when time stops working on us.

Then the second experiment is like time goes back and forth, it spreads towards different direction and time somehow pulls it back in the same way.