The Chain

Investigate one artefact through ten documented copying steps, and report what each step changed in measurements someone else could reproduce.

Due: 26 March 2027 · Weight: 20%

Choose a copying process. Put one artefact through ten documented steps of it, and report what each step changed.

Due 12:00, Friday 26 March 2027 (Canberra time). About 8–10 hours.

What you submit#

The original and ten outputs, a settings log, a measurement table, the prediction you recorded before you started, and a 600-word analysis.

Keep the original. Include a control that isolates something your measurement might otherwise be blamed on. A finding of no measurable change is a valid result and is marked as one — the exact-copy control in week 1 exists to make that point early.

You may use a process demonstrated in a workshop, provided you pose your own comparison. You are not required to invent a new technology or acquire equipment, and no premium is awarded for expensive apparatus or dramatic degradation.

The prediction#

Record what you expect to lose before you run anything. The mark rewards comparing that expectation honestly with what happened. A prediction quietly revised after seeing the result scores nothing on that criterion.

Extensions, late work and declaration of tools: see the course policies.