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Cassidy Curtis's Marvelous Surface Drawings (1996) [pdf]

129 points by iamjeff 10y ago

bluenose69 10y ago
This is what an alumni magazine is for: celebrating students' achievements. Just think of how it felt to see that homework! This is what professors live for. I'm not surprised that Banchoff talked about this whilst receiving a teaching award, since any true teacher knows that the real award is occasionally seeing students like Curtis.
seesomesense 10y ago
If you have seen Shrek or How to Train Your Dragon, you have seen some of the work the student produced after graduation. See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996697/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996697/
- ralfd 10y ago
  His website states that after Dreamworks he works for Google now. But I guess this is one of his best works: http://otherthings.com/howtobaby/ http://otherthings.com/howtobaby/
RBerenguel 10y ago
Oh, nice! If you enjoy "mathematical drawing" give a look at "A topological picturebook" by George K. Francis.
davepeck 10y ago
He's still doing awesome stuff. See his blog, for example: http://otherthings.com/blog/ http://otherthings.com/blog/ (I never knew Cassidy but I studied under Tom Banchoff a few years later, so I certainly knew his homeworks!)
vessenes 10y ago
I took this class in the early 1990s; Banchoff was quite an interesting fellow, and excellent at motivating undergraduates. One of the things he offered his honors class was a chance at getting hired to do research as a freshman/sophomore. He was one of the best lecturers I've seen; he'd collect questions about the previous reading at the beginning of class, and realtime construct a lecture about the material by winding his way through answering all the questions. The combination was pretty motivating; I spent many hours shading 3d graphs by hand. Mine weren't this nice, but I still wish I had them.
- oppositelock 10y ago
  I also took Banchoff's class in the early '90's. It was fantastic, and he had a knack for filling multivariable calculus with excitement. I'll never forget his "monkey saddle" graphs. That class kicked my ass, but it was one of the most memorable classes that I took at Brown.
GuiA 10y ago
Notable that Cassidy Curtis is a synesthete: http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/ http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/ I wonder if that plays a role. Fantastic article, thanks for sharing.

129 points by iamjeff 10y ago

This is what an alumni magazine is for: celebrating students' achievements. Just think of how it felt to see that homework! This is what professors live for. I'm not surprised that Banchoff talked about this whilst receiving a teaching award, since any true teacher knows that the real award is occasionally seeing students like Curtis.

seesomesense 10y ago

If you have seen Shrek or How to Train Your Dragon, you have seen some of the work the student produced after graduation. See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996697/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996697/

ralfd 10y ago
His website states that after Dreamworks he works for Google now. But I guess this is one of his best works: http://otherthings.com/howtobaby/ http://otherthings.com/howtobaby/

RBerenguel 10y ago

Oh, nice! If you enjoy "mathematical drawing" give a look at "A topological picturebook" by George K. Francis.

davepeck 10y ago

He's still doing awesome stuff. See his blog, for example: http://otherthings.com/blog/ http://otherthings.com/blog/ (I never knew Cassidy but I studied under Tom Banchoff a few years later, so I certainly knew his homeworks!)

vessenes 10y ago

I took this class in the early 1990s; Banchoff was quite an interesting fellow, and excellent at motivating undergraduates. One of the things he offered his honors class was a chance at getting hired to do research as a freshman/sophomore. He was one of the best lecturers I've seen; he'd collect questions about the previous reading at the beginning of class, and realtime construct a lecture about the material by winding his way through answering all the questions. The combination was pretty motivating; I spent many hours shading 3d graphs by hand. Mine weren't this nice, but I still wish I had them.

oppositelock 10y ago
I also took Banchoff's class in the early '90's. It was fantastic, and he had a knack for filling multivariable calculus with excitement. I'll never forget his "monkey saddle" graphs. That class kicked my ass, but it was one of the most memorable classes that I took at Brown.

GuiA 10y ago

Notable that Cassidy Curtis is a synesthete: http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/ http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/ I wonder if that plays a role. Fantastic article, thanks for sharing.