Intention

We wanted to recreate our module 3 installation of the Newton's cradle, but make it more refined. We originally intended to make it very physically accurate and more of a physics simulation. We soon found out that programming real world physics is more difficult than we thought. The final product's physical properties ended up similar to our module 3 physical installation in that when the balls collide they end up just swinging together instead of transferring their energy. We worked through this technical difficulty and went back to our roots from module 3. Our new intention was to make something that was visual pleasing, and distracting similar to our module 3 project. We still kept some of the physics experimentation in the program in that you are able to adjust how many balls you pull back, and how far you pull them. We took the propagation of force that a perfect Newton's cradle would have, and changed it into propagation of color in the direction the balls swing.