Madeup Goes To Summer School
My mornings last week were spent with the young folks attending the summer school session at the Chippewa Valley Montessori School. My sidekicks were our little 3D printer and Madeup, the programming language I’ve been working on to code up 3D models. I don’t have a lot of experience working with this age group, and […]
Madeup Status Report #8
Last week I submitted my grades and breathed a big sigh of relief. I love summers. It’s time to work on Madeup! My students and I did make considerable progress during the school year. I mentioned many things in the last status report and we’ve accomplished the following since then: Added a solid wireframe mode. […]
Rator Vaders: Week 1
I’ve had on my TODO list for several years now a simple game for learning operators commonly used in programming. Like %. I’ve wanted to use this in my introductory programming courses, but alas, my TODO list is more of a TODO stack. The oldest items get the least attention. So, I performed a simple […]
Biosketch
Last week I gave a talk at a local coffee shop on my programming language for generating 3D models. Since I’m teaching a couple of game development courses this semester, I offered some extra credit to students who attended. For proof of attendance, students had to submit a selfie, a receipt, a soiled napkin, or […]
Ask a Scientist Talk
This is the manuscript of a talk I gave at the Acoustic Cafe on April 20, 2016, as part of UWEC’s Ask a Scientist speaker series. Thanks, Paul Thomas, for the opportunity to share my work! Introduction Hi, I’m Chris. I teach machines. I also teach people to teach machines. I like both of these […]
Madeup Lock Core
I worked on creating the core to a lock that looks similar to a lock like this: I started by creating the outline of the face of the lock, then extruded that face. Then I created a cylinder around a portion of the core and found the difference of the two in order to get […]
Embedding Madeup Client
I’m working on embedding the Madeup web client in other contexts, like blog posts. Do you see a cornflower blue cube below that you can rotate?
sine_box_spheres
— How big do we want our waves? amplitude = 20 — Hard variables, cannot be changed hiFreqFactor = 1.33333333333333 –the long segments must have a different frequency to match up hiFreqShifter = 67.5 — each long segment completes the unit circle in 3/4 time of the short segment shifter = 90 — Dimensions for […]