Programming

I'm a programmer with an interest in computer graphics. Particularly, I'm interested in how tools affect the things we make, and how software can influence design thought.

Controlling procedural modelling interactively with guiding curves

Written in collaboration with Abhishek Madan, Andrew McBurney, Paul Bardea and Tammy Liu.

Proceedings of Graphics Interface, March 28, 2019

A method of interactive procedural model searching, written for my fourth year research project.

We present a likelihood function for Sequential Monte Carlo sampling that lets artists draw guiding curves to control the output of generating grammars. This framework enables the high-level structure of models to be intuitively specified while allowing for sufficient variation in the low-level details. Our method can be computed at interactive rates to enable the short feedback loops required for exploratory design.

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The Engulfed Cathedral: CS488 final project

July 25, 2018

A raytraced 3d renderer and short animation created with it for Waterloo's computer graphics course.

I used this project to implement graphics techniques such as photon mapped lighting, ambient occlusion, volumetric materials, constructive solid geometry, and inverse kinematics, along with sampling methods for inverse procedural modelling.

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Arts and Design

In my spare time, I draw, make animations, and write music. I make a lot of sarcastic cover songs as well as serious music like the track below.

Art Animations Soundcloud