I’ve been having fun experimenting with interesting visual patterns that emerge when multiple points are moved around hypocycloids. I ended up writing a Bridges conference paper on the topic, but the animated quality of the results is so crucial that it seemed absolutely necessary to create a web page to …
Oh he is so quick On his feet. He is reading The #WallStreetJournal. This term, I’m teaching an introductory computer science course for students in Waterloo’s Global Business and Digital Arts program. We’re using Processing, a fun environment for learning programming, and for simple programming tasks related to visual art …
I was commissioned to create an Islamic geometric design to serve as a prop on the set of an Austrian production of the play Disgraced.
A 3D printed coffee cup with a knotted handle.
Hi, my name is Craig Kaplan. I’m a Computer Science professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I’m using my blog as a convenient place to put out a call to comic artists for test images that we could use in our research. My PhD student Matthew Thorne is working on software …
Fold a square of origami paper in half, unfold, fold it in half the other way, and unfold. Now fold the corners to the centre. Turn it over and repeat. You may be reminded of folding what’s often called a cootie catcher or fortune teller. You end up with the leftmost module in …
I designed an espresso cup mapped with a bas-relief lunar surface. When I discovered that it couldn’t be 3D printed directly in ceramic, I designed to cast it by hand.
While in London in 2014, I had access to a laser cutter. I created a few small pieces of wooden marquetry based on Islamic geometric patterns.
Inspired by the archetypal British Chocolate Biscuit, I designed a cup specifically for dipping.
An in-depth exploration of the minusing of a number of comics, inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield.