The Domino Effect

Articles can be found at : http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1638
http://digg.com/politics/10_Years_Ago_Bush_Was_Against_Iraq_War_Predicted_Guerilla_War\

Object Name: Destruction
Title: The Domino Effect
Creator: RL Name: Cameron Church and Charlie Chavez
SL Name: Jim Wellesley and Viti Capelo
Date: 4/20/2009
Summary: The Destruction (tank) demonstrates the article chosen that proves the 10 most important economic events leading in a path (domino effect) to destruction. The user can interact with rezzing the objects inside the tank to discover what events happened potentially transitioning to another world war. A petri net was chosen show we could depict the transitional events leading up to this path of war. The denotation and connotation of our design was respectively the events leading up to the downfall of our economy, and the direction we are heading from this economic crisis to a path of distruction.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk37-LZckeg

Interaction: The model depicts a tank like structure (Object-Destruction) which will initally give the user a sense of power, authority, and justice in a war-like setting. The user interacts with 'Destruction,' by entering through the top of the structure, placing the user at the control center of the vehicle. From the control center, the user can rezz the transitional events representing major occurances to the economy in the last 10 years ending with a potential war.

Motivation: The motivation for this project was the design and implementation of transitional states leading up to another possible war. Many major events have happened which have damaged our economy majorly in the last several years, however the article used selected 10 major events which have contributed to the greatest effects on the economy. The design of a tank was one fascinating aspect as well as combining the design to our implementation depicting our particular article.

Description: Initially a tank was designed using several square prims, follwed by creating curvature through modifying several circular prims. Textiles used were mostly comouflauge and tank iron colors, giving the user an object which appears to be a war-like tank set out for destruction and war. The scripting implemented was the trasitional states leading up to another possible war, beginning with the user interaction from entering the vechicle (Symbolism towards 10 years ago when the president at the time predicted a Guerilla war. The transitional events are all linked for more information in which the user can gather (tokens). Once all objects are rezzed, the transitions lead to another possible world war, demonstrating the particular path to destruction which our economic decisions have lead to.