turbine-7 · deliverable

Visual mock-ups & art direction — Turbine 7

Kit 9 · Turbine 7 · deliverable · designed and built by I Wayan Usada · annotated renders from the shipped build · fictional case

Direction

A North Sea night shift seen from the control desk, then from the machine. The place has to be believable at real scale (a 112 m hub, 80 m blades, a string of turbines 950 m apart) so that the evidence on the machine feels like evidence, not a quiz prop. The interface stays out of the scene: one panel, one strip of instructions, no labels on the machine except the ones a real turbine carries.

Palette and light

Sea and sky change with the case. Each alarm has its own time, sun height, wind, wave height, cloud and rain; the sky, sea colour, fog and reflections are recomputed from them. Night cases are lit by the moon, the aviation lights and the nacelle work lights.
Amber #ffb200 is the interface accent only (panel edge, focus, primary button). Nothing in the scene is coloured good or bad before the learner commits.
Red appears in the scene only as real hardware: aviation lights, the brake caliper, sensor housings.

Type

A plain sans for the panel, monospace for readings, times and SCADA screens, the kit's serif for headings on the kit pages. Readings are text, never colour alone.

Annotated key screens

A · The desk. Three monitors carry the alarm list, the 20-minute trend and the string map, drawn live from the case. The CCTV wall is a real render of the farm, so its weather matches the case. The panel on the right is the only interface.

B · The machine at real scale. A GRP nacelle section with rounded shoulders and a tapered nose instead of a box; bolted panel joints, intakes and an access panel; a passive cooler you can see through; a spinner with blade openings. Textured paint, steel and plate (CC0 sets); one shadowed key light; fog and a far-sea skirt so the horizon is water.

C · The cutaway. The roof halves swing out like a real nacelle's service hatches, and the camera looks down through the opening. The work lamp says where the alarm points; it never says what the answer is.

D · Environmental traces. People stay off-screen; what they left behind is the evidence: a cable-tied inspection card, a work order, a bagged filter, a painted pitch mark.

E · Consequence at the scale of the vessel. A wrong restart is not a red cross; it is nine weeks and a jack-up vessel lifting the gearbox out.

Component decisions

Decision	Why
Built in code at real dimensions	No CC0 model of an offshore drivetrain exists; building it means every part can be opened, labelled in the panel and scored
One panel, every action a button	Keyboard and screen-reader users can do everything the mouse can; on phones the panel becomes a bottom sheet and the camera reframes above it
Production desk as text radio calls	No synthetic voices or faces; the pressure is in the words and the €/day figure
Thermal view shows numbers	A heat map with a legend tells you where to look; a red/green overlay would answer the question for you
Quality switch (high / low)	Low drops real-time shadows, uses 512 px textures and lower pixel density; measured at 79 draw calls or fewer per view

Accessibility

Every stop and part is a button; the decision, pattern, pushback and note are form controls; readings carry text values and the trend has a text alternative. Reduced motion turns camera flights and time-lapses into cuts. If WebGL is unavailable, a poster and a link to the 2D version replace the scene. Full WCAG conformance needs testing with assistive technology, which has not been done.

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