EXP3 Week 2: Riding the Elevator

My two elevators are a similar shape to facilitate comparison, each intended to illustrate different ideas of power.

The elevator for Coca Cola employees is in the form of a spa bath, allowing them to enjoy a refreshing ride between the headquarters and valley floor. Fittingly, Coca Cola gains financial power by promising customers comfort and refreshment.

The elevator for Facebook is a podium-style design, ensuring the prestigious employees can be seen as they travel between the two sites. This echoes the way the company encourages users to mount themselves on display and gain a sense of self-importance.

The roof forms of each are also meaningful in respect to each company's approach to gaining power; for Coca Cola it is a smooth, gradually levelling curve while Facebook's depicts a continuous increase.

 Above is the code used to animate my elevators; in this case K moves the lift up, and L moves it down. My tutor helped me discover a feature allowing the direction of motion to be reversed at any point in the path. This was done by making the press of a trigger key stop the opposite motion while releasing the key activates the desired motion. (The other elevator is trigged by O and P).