Time machine
I ran with my initial idea for this project, which was a modified spinning top. Initially I looked at old fashioned string tops for inspiration, but realised they weren't very user-friendly as they don't always spin properly and require a good technique to use. When I did some more research I found some designs similar to those below towards the right hand side, which use a handle and a wound string to launch the top consistently. The idea is that the length the string is wound determines the length of time travelled while the direction, clockwise or anti-clockwise, determines the direction backwards or forwards. The setting for it would be futuristic fantasy/sci-fi, using victorian-era designs but advanced technology. In addition, I thought of the device as being very personal, scrapped together by the user with no small amount of whimsy and a little worn and beaten up.
This is my initial low poly build, I think the handle part of the top is going to be quite hard to build because of its irregular shape, but most of the rest of the top I could build fairly easily from basic primitives. I'm not sure how many polygons my final model is going to be yet, but at the moment it looks like I'm going to be just around the limit, mainly due to the amount of curves in the design.
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