Automotive Retailer & Parts Revenue

Elevator Script Help : Note to Zach and Professor Fishwick : If you relocate the object you must reset the stackpointer script for the correct location in order for it to work properly. Edit the stack dial which goes up and down. Inside the script I left notes in which values you need to modify. Please update X,Y,Z values for the current position of the stack dial elevator and the script will work perfectly!


Article can be found at : http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/snapshots/175.html


Object Name: Automotive Retailer & Parts Corporation Building
Title: Automotive Retailer & Parts Revenue for 2008-2009
Creator: RL Name: Charlie Chavez
SL Name: Viti Capelo
Date: 3/02/09
Summary: The building itself represents a Stack-based data structure representing the top USA based corporations within the automotive business. Each floor displays a different stack of information with the elevator itself used as the stack pointer. Information is displayed incremental in the sense that the highest revenue company is located at the top of the stack (or index 5.) Also the higher index you point at, the more revenue the company acquired hence the better features/objects each level has.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaBYBr_Fpb0

Interaction: The model depicts a corporate building allowing the user to use the elevator or stack pointer to retrieve a section of data which in this case is displayed by each room/

Motivation: The automotive business is suffering however according to revenues, they are almost equal to years prior. However since the economy is in a rough situation, a good revenue does not necessarily suggest that your company was profitable. Many of the companies contained inside the stack had negative profitability including GM and Ford. Also the fact that I just bought a GM car, I figured i feature GM at the top of the stack!

Description: The textiles used on the building itself were trying to display a reflected mirror giving the user a feel or a real corporate office. The tiles within the building consist of diagrams/pictures used to demonstrate how each company attains revenue.