Projects
CSR2
Natural Motion
Setting a new standard in visuals, CSR 2 delivers hyper-real drag racing to the palms of your hands. Compete against live players across the world with your custom built supercars including LaFerrari, McLaren P1™, Koenigsegg One:1 and many more.
Samsung S10 AR Emoji
Samsung Electronics
The new version of the AR Emoji is released with the Samsung Galaxy S10 range of devices. Samsung's avatars are integrated in the camera app and allow the user to create a virtual presence character that is adopted to their own characteristics.
Pokémon Art Academy
Kuju / Headstrong Games
Pokémon Art Academy is an educational drawing video game developed by Headstrong Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a spin-off of the Art Academy series featuring characters from the Pokémon media franchise.
VBS Tactics
Bohemia Interactive Simulations
VBS Tactics allows users to conduct real-time tactical exercises up to the company level. Its intuitive interface can be used to configure doctrine-based orders of battle, plan a mission, execute it in real time, and review the results in after-action review.
XTracer
Personal Project
An experimental offline renderer based on path tracing.
GoveeWatch
Personal Project
A curses application that picks up bluetooth broadcasts from Govee thermometer / hydrometer devices and displays readings at real-time.
Euclid
Personal Project
A command line frontend for chat GPT. It implements two modes. One for one-off queries, and one for persistent conversations.
Asciimg
Personal Project
Asciimg is a small utility that allows displaying images in a command line terminal.
Technical Blog
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A condensed guide to React hooks
A quick reference guide to React hooks. When to use useState, useEffect, useRef, useMemo & more. Includes comparison tablew, real examples, and common gotchas to look out for.
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Simulating the Seestar S50 in Stellarium
Learn how to set up the Seestar S50 smart telescope in Stellarium using accurate sensor and telescope parameters. This guide covers both standard and 2x mosaic modes to help you simulate your field of view for better astrophotography planning.
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Generating audio transcripts
This short write-up offers a quick overview of a simple method you can use to create a transcript from either a video or an audio file, which may be helpful in a variety of contexts such as documentation, content analysis, or accessibility.
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Implementing a todo app, Part 1: The Backend
Part 1 of a blog post series on full stack development, where I walk through the process of building a simple task management app. This chapter focuses on implementation of the backend services.
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Speech synthesis for web applications
I've introduced a feature that lets you listen to my blog's content being read aloud. This post explains how I implemented it using the Speech Synthesis Web API, which requires minimal code and works on most modern browsers.
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Gameboy Development, Part 1: Hello World!
A step-by-step guide for creating a 'hello world' ROM for the Nintendo Gameboy in assembly
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Working with encrypted file archives
A brief guide on encrypting and decrypting tar archives with gpg
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ZEXMTE BT-506 in Debian
A guide on how to make the ZEXMTE BT-506 dongle work in Debian
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Notifications Using Telegram
A tutorial on using telegram to generate notifications
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Docker in Debian
Notes on using Docker in Debian
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Getting creative with asciimg
A fun experiment in using text to render animated images in a terminal
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Lossy Compression of Unsigned Float Numbers
Notes on a lossy unsigned float number compression technique
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Shadow Mapping
A short introduction of shadow mapping and how to implement it
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Peripage bluetooth printing via the terminal
A tutorial on interfacing a peripage printer via the command line
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Using Yubikey FIDO2 to login in Debian/GDM
A brief guide on using Yubikey as an authentication method with GDM
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Intel's Panel Self Refresh (PSR) Feature
Ai brief guide on resolving Intel's PSR issues
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Midjourney
A brief post on generating images with Midjourney
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Brachiograph plotter
Brief notes on building a brachiograph plotter
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Normal Map Blending
A brief survey of normal blending techniques
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Notes on Unreal Engine 5, Nanite
A collection of notes on Nanite gather from resources online
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Reviving old software to run on a modern machine
A short case study on how to bring old software back to life
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Creating floppy disk images in Linux
A short guide on creating floppy disk images in Linux
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The De Moivre theorem
Theory and implementation of the De Moivre theorem
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Macro-Photography with a Mobile Phone (Part 2)
Another way to turn your mobile phone into a macro camera
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Macro-Photography using a Mobile Phone
A simple way to turn your mobile phone into a macro camera
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Classic Demo Effects, Twister
The classic demoscene effect explained and implemented in GLSL
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Irradiance Encoding, Spherical Harmonics
Spherical Harmonics are a type of Spherical Radial Basis Function that can be used to encode signals defined on a sphere in a compact way. This makes them an excellent fit for encoding a variety of datasets commonly used in real time graphics.
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Irradiance Encoding, Ambient Cube
In Half-Life 2, a directional ambient term is precomputed across the environments and stored in the ambient cube lighting encoding. This post goes over the theory behind the ambient cubes technique and presents an implementation in GLSL.
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Generative art
Generative art is an algorithmic approach to creating unique and dynamic works of art. As technology progresses, it continues to evolve, allowing artists to explore new forms and patterns beyond traditional methods.
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Full Screen Pass Without Explicit Geometry
A brief explanation on how to render a full screen pass efficiently in OpenGL and DirectX
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Elementary Cellular Automaton, Rule 126
Wolfram's infamous rule 126 explained in plain terms
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Classic Demo Effects, Fire
The classic demoscene effect explained and implemented in GLSL
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OpenGL Geometry
A brief survey of various ways OpenGL can draw geometry
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Half-Space Test
An explanation of the math behind half-space testing
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Distributed Ray-Tracing
An overview of how distributed ray-tracing enhances realism by addressing the limits of traditional ray-tracing, using Monte Carlo sampling to simulate effects like soft shadows, gloss, depth of field, and motion blur.
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Historical Computer Gemerated Animations
A listing of CGI films, that played a pivotal role in the history of computer graphics
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Lindenmayer Systems
L-Systems are a mathematical framework for modeling organic structures and fractals. They generate complex patterns and are used in graphics, biology, and procedural generation. In this blog post I share some examples and how to implement them.
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Interpolation Methods
A collection of useful interpolation methods, theory and implementation
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Optical Illusions, Lightness Constancy
Lightness constancy allows us to perceive surface brightness as stable despite changes in lighting. The Checker Shadow Illusion highlights how context, shadows, and spatial cues trick the brain into seeing identical shades as different.
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BTRFS, Quick Start
A brief guide on using BTRFS
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Useful Functions for Graphics
A listing of useful math formulas and their plots
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Generating Stereo Anaglyphs with ImageMagick
How to generate stereo anaglyphs with ImageMagick
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Raytracing, Ray-Plane Testing
Ray to Plane intersection testing, theory and implementation
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Sampling a Disk, Vogel's Distribution Method
There are many ways to spread points across the surface of a disk but doing so in an even distribution can be challenging. Vogel’s method solves that problem elegantly. In this blog post, I explore the underlying math and show how to implement it.
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Visibility Culling
A listing of visibility culling techniques
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Sprite Encoding / Decoding Using Literals
A simple approach for sprite texture encoding
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Edge Detection Using the Sobel Operator
The Sobel operator explained and implemented in GLSL
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Math Operations using Matrices
A listing of mathematical matrices commonly used in Graphics
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Color Grading, An Artist Driven Approach
A simple method of implementing color grading
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Law of Reflection
The physics law of reflection, theory and implementation
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PostFX, Pixelize
Implementation of pixelization effects in GLSL
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Anti-Aliasing, FXAA
A high level explanation of FXAA and how to implement it in GLSL
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NCF, A Minimalistic Meta-Language
A short guide on NCF specification and how to use it in your own projects
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Metaballs
Metaballs, what are they and how to make them
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Pseudo 3D Tunnel Effect
The classic demoscene effect explained and implemented in GLSL
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Conway's Game of Life
A GPU implementation of Conway's game of life
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Fractals, Mandelbrot & Julia Sets
Theory and GPU implementation of the Mandelbrot and Julia fractal sets
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C/C++ Embedded Files
A summary of different approaches for embedding files within c / c++ code
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Primus Under Debian/Sid
A short guide on enabling and using Primus under Debian Sid
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GNU Make, Parallel Processing
Parallel processing with GNU Make
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