brain dump the second

refining PPPP ideas

photo credit: Ameen Fahmy

Quite evidently, the last brain dump was very much just a brain dump -- a lot of ideas and not a lot of thoughts. This is going to be a little bit more of a controlled burn, but still a hot mess. Hopefully, though, it'll provide a better idea of where this project is going.

So without further ago, here are some reflections on the more decent ideas from the initial brainstorm.

mashed potato gun

This, weirdly enough, has a solid amount of physics involved without delving into anything too too complicated. On the other hand, it's kind of... weird, for lack of a better explanation. I certainly wouldn't expect any proper mashing to occur. Furthermore, I tried to take some time measurements off of videos for my SPH3UE summative, and it didn't go super well (at least not in terms of accuracy). It's still a viable fallback plan, but at least for now, I don't think it's the ideal topic to run with.

dance physics

I'm not completely turned off from this idea. I kind of think that designing pointe shoes would be fun, if a little unrealistic. Besides the fact that I have no experience in any kind of shoe-making -- and both pointe and shoes require a lot of skill -- I also have been slacking off in terms of pointe work and dance itself. It would probably just involve a little bit of planning and theoretical drawings.

sound + music

I'm addressing this as an entire category, because I don't think I ever really came up with real ideas. Yes, I love sound and music, and I love studying it. There's definitely a connection to physics, but I don't think I could make a truly meaningful one, or more specifically one that is meaningful to me. The application just doesn't speak to me properly, which sounds mostly ridiculous, but... that's still how it is.

use of soundwaves in imaging technology

This is pretty decent as far as physics goes, but I don't think there's a lot of very good potential for experiments/demonstrations. Might be a fallback if I need to pull more physics into things.

drop spindling

Definitely feel happiest with this one, right now. I feel like it's not super complex on the physics end of things, but it's something that I can address very directly through my work, in that I can take relatively accurate measurements and access resources with relative ease. I'm not a spinner, so there might be a bit of a learning curve in terms of developing samples, but I'm not too concerned about that. (Textile art experience is not necessarily all transferrable, although I the background knowledge I have will probably come in handy.)