Ideas

superskyline

I think many people have this problem and that is what to create on Sketchyphysics. Any ideas, anyone

dale

A carousel.

fransko

try this

DanYHKim

One idea is to make a series of SP machines to hone your skills with the plug in. For instance, making a steerable motorized car is a common exercise. Another is to learn the behavior of the various joints and their controls, or to learn the limits of the dimensions of objects, to see how small or large they can be made before their physics break down.

An idea that I had, which I haven't tried to do, is to make an electric motor using passive hinges and the magnet property. Can the magnetic attraction be turned on and off in a rhythmic way that emulates the electromagnetic switching in an electric motor's rotor? Can this switching be linked to 'touching' between two objects in a manner similar to the way a motor's brushes turn the electricity on and off? While the SketchyPhysics motor joint already exists and works out of the box, an exercise of creating a motor from these principles would be quite a challenge. In the process of making such a model, you will learn many skills in the use of SketchUp and SketchyPhysics.

3eighty

A real waterfall would be very cool..

DanYHKim

OK, another plug for Miku Miku Dance:

Take a look at this video

[flash=425,344:15sbrqiy]http://www.youtube.com/v/DU08c8h6a2U[/flash:15sbrqiy]

This was made using the open source software "Miku Miku Dance", which is able to import SketchUp models. The trains, I think, are actually driven by the rotation of their wheels, and a "Camera Follow" effect is used to keep the view on one of the trains.

Something like this can be made using SketchyPhysics, I'm sure.