Understand MVC Pattern?

What metaphor is good for understanding the Model-View-Controller pattern?

• I'm trying to understand the MVC pattern and I'd love an intuitive way to understand it.

• Answer:

  A painting Paints are the model. They have unique and similar properties to other paints. You can mix them or use them as pure as possible. The painter is the controller. The painter performs the task using the paint and easel. The painter takes the paint from the palette and decides how to apply it to the easel. The easel is the view. It is agnostic of the painter and paint and doesn't care how it will be used. It does, however, have qualities like size and texture that effect the outcome of the painting. Notice here that the paint and easel have nothing to do with each other, as should your models and views. Only the painter, or controller, merges the two mediums.