Snails, Paper, and Programming: A Computational Approach to Mollusc Morphology in Origami

June 11, 2021 by Elecia White

I gave a presentation about my love of curved crease origami, math, and snails to a Harvey Mudd College mini-conference. I only had ten minutes to speak so it was… a little fast. The video is below.

The slides (available on github) show I had a few extras that got cut. I made a version of the origami snail generating Python script that can run in a browser (also available on github. Turbinator.py).

It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take MISRA-C

February 15, 2016 by Chris White in Software

Frequently, we talk about how a little compassion and respect for the future can make a big difference for code quality. I purposely avoided many specifics to focus more on the motivations for taking greater care with our work. This week, I’d like to address something very specific and perhaps something that could form a foundation for writing better code.