Lydia Tonkonow Showcases Research at Visualizing Knowledge Exhibition

2017 May 22

Lydia Tonkonow was one of several students to present a project at Wesleyan's first student visual knowledge and data visualization exhibition on May 12. Students were asked to showcase how they conveyed or established information in a mainly non-verbal form.

Tonkonow's project was titled, “Games and Gender in Ancient Rome.” Together with two other students, she used a 3-D printer to create a Roman articulated doll from the 4th century; a laser wood cut to recreate a dice tower or pyrgus, also from the 4th century; and a 3-D printer to create a model of Knucklebones, a common gaming item used in ancient Greece and Egypt. Knucklebones were originally the anklebone of either a sheep, goat or cow.

The project won second prize.