CS/IT Research Seminar: Chris Johnson — Code Your Own Paper Orb with Twoville

Join the JMU CS/IT Research Seminar with Chris Johnson.

Details

Friday, Oct. 16
11:25 am to 12:10 pm
236 King Hall

Abstract

Members of a plugged-in society easily spend entire days in disembodied cognition, merely thinking about virtual artifacts. They forget how to draw and build. But brains and hands work better together. In this hands-on and brains-on workshop, Dr. Chris Johnson will guide participants in a papercraft activity using Twoville, a platform for designing physical objects with math, logic, and mouse manipulations. Twoville features a bidirectional editor, which means the design can be indirectly manipulated through code or directly manipulated through the canvas. Participants will code, cut, and assemble a three-dimensional paper orb sculpture to take home.

Bio

Dr. Chris Johnson is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at James Madison University. He joined JMU in 2020 after abandoning his Midwestern roots of Iowa and Wisconsin for a warmer place where he could bike everyday. His interests are in computer graphics and programming languages, which are exactly the courses he's teaching this semester. His favorite programming language hasn't been invented yet and never will be.

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