A picture is worth a thousand words. You may have heard this in the past, but when has someone said a few words are worth a thousand pictures? As you're reading this class description to find out what we'll be learning you should think about how you've had a few expected and unexpected experiences in the past, and as you remember these experiences you'll realize that while some of them you could see were happening some of them came because of something you didn't notice. In this class we'll be looking at the experiences life doesn't always make obvious, and what impact this will have. Have you wanted to render an entire forest on your computer? Hide a message in a message? Turn music into a picture or play a picture as music? For this class we'll be discussing cool ways things are represented in the world: - How you'd generate an entire forest on your computer, and even a planet if you wanted. - DNA and its relationship to proteins. - Encryption of passwords and messages. - How images and music are edited. - How an apparent bias in a study can be lying when looked at with a faulty lens - Converting a message into an alphabet of two letters and converting it back to hide it or make it possible to transmit with simple means. - And more. This and more we'll examine through group discussion and hands on activities to discover how we'd approach this and how this changes the way we look at and live life. There are no prerequisites as everything will be built up in class. Curiosity and the desire to throw spaghetti at your mental wall will be your best assets here.

A picture is worth a thousand words. You may have heard this in the past, but when has someone said a few words are worth a thousand pictures? As you're reading this class description to find out what we'll be learning you should think about how you've had a few expected and unexpected experiences in the past, and as you remember these experiences you'll realize that while some of them you could see were happening some of them came because of something you didn't notice. In this class we'll be looking at the experiences life doesn't always make obvious, and what impact this will have. Have you wanted to render an entire forest on your computer? Hide a message in a message? Turn music into a picture or play a picture as music? For this class we'll be discussing cool ways things are represented in the world: - How you'd generate an entire forest on your computer, and even a planet if you wanted. - DNA and its relationship to proteins. - Encryption of passwords and messages. - How images and music are edited. - How an apparent bias in a study can be lying when looked at with a faulty lens - Converting a message into an alphabet of two letters and converting it back to hide it or make it possible to transmit with simple means. - And more. This and more we'll examine through group discussion and hands on activities to discover how we'd approach this and how this changes the way we look at and live life. There are no prerequisites as everything will be built up in class. Curiosity and the desire to throw spaghetti at your mental wall will be your best assets here.