Physics Project: Light and Shadow – Basics of Design II

The Project

In this project a physical phenomenon from one of the areas “Throw”, “Pendular”, “Pulley” and “Light and Shadow” was to be demonstrated by a small interactive program. The main focus was on the createion of a simple, functional and easy-to-use user interface.

The Result

For a complete view it may be necessary to switch to Fullscreen mode (e.g. in Firefox and IE: Press [F11]).

The Implementation

I chose the topic “Light and Shadow”. In a pseudo-realistic 3D view a globe can be lighted from different sides. The lighting can also be animated in two ways and there are four pre-defined scenarios that can be modified at the user’s wish.

Astonishingly (even for me) the final SWF file is only 8 KB in size and thus can be viewed easily on the webside or (with a right click) downloaded here. If you’d rather have it as an executable file on your Windows or Linux machine, you can also download a stand-alone version in the box above.