Jonathan Denning - Associate Professor

Jonathan Denning

Associate Professor

Upland, Indiana, United States

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Jonathan Denning is an Associate Professor and co-chair of Computer Science and Engineering at Taylor University with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and practical tool development. He researches design workflows, material visualization, and artist-created topology while teaching data structures, algorithms, HCI, graphics, and game engine architecture. As a long-time developer for CG Cookie, he’s a key contributor to RetopoFlow—an artist-friendly Blender retopology suite—focusing on UI, algorithmic improvements, and rendering/shader tweaks. His work blends rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on plugin development, and he periodically lectures at Dartmouth, reflecting a commitment to both pedagogy and production-quality tooling. Not obvious at first glance: he prefers off-LinkedIn contact and shares more technical updates via his Twitter handle, where he mixes graphics experimentation with code.

12 years of coding experience

12 years of employment as a software developer

BA, Computer Science, Mathematics, BA, Computer Science, Mathematics at Tabor College

Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Dartmouth College

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth

Computer Science, Computer Science at Kansas State University

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Github Skills (18)

python10

animation10

rendering10

c1110

render10

c1710

computer-graphics10

3d10

modeling10

c-language9

user-interface9

mesh9

cprogramming-language9

3d-models8

algorithms8

Programming languages (3)

CSCSSPython

Github contributions (5)

CGCookie/retopoflow

Jan 2015 - Dec 2022

A suite of retopology tools for Blender

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:26 releases, 2270 commits, 20 PRs in 8 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Jonathan's commits primarily address bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within a Blender add-on focused on retopology tools. The changes involve improvements to the user interface and algorithms for the "PolyPen" tool and other utilities, particularly related to edge and vertex manipulation. The user also contributed to improvements to the rendering process, including enhancements to the shader code, and added options for adjusting the target mesh's alpha.

usabilitypythonblenderretopologyblender-addon

CGCookie/bouncer

Jul 2021 - Jan 2022

Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 6 months

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