An implementation of an artificial life program, first developed in the 1980s. In brief, just three simple rules lead to intelligent flocking behaviour. Implemented all my own tooling from the groundup, including vector algebra and dynamic frame loop adjustments.
A re-implementation of Boids, but mounted inside a React component, ready to be imported into your own React app.
A simple flashcard app for learning Braille. Uses the Leitner method of spaced repetition to gradually build up your confidence.
A simple flashcard app for learning Morse Code. Uses a custom spaced repetition method (although not strictly the Leitner method).
A tribute to the vaporwave aesthetic. Take a sunset trip through the infinite metropolis. Rendered with three.js
A Julia Set renderer whose initial offset value rotates through the complex plane. Primarily written in Rust compiled to WASM, and called from JavaScript.
A Lindenmayer fractal generator. Creates a random branch structure and recursively reapplies it to itself. Written solely in Vanilla JS and HTML5 Canvas. Dynamically computes ideal depth generation based on browser performance.
A little Connect4 implementation. Can you beat the AI? Uses minimax over a limited depth, falling back to a heuristic value heatmap when that depth is exceeded.
A simple visualizer for Langton's Ant, a cellular automaton first described by Christopher Gale Langton in 1986.
A simple firework simulation. Click or tap the screen to create an explosion. An explosion of bright particles and trailing embers will shoot out in 3D, as if you are watching a real explosion from a safe distance.
A simple population center simulation. Cities emerge over time, and connect to one another. As they form more connections, they can grow in size. But if they are not connected to a smaller city, they collapse and decay.
Perlin noise in 2D starts by generating a grid of random unit vectors. But what if the unit vectors were smoothly rotating over time? In this project a create a smoothly animated Perlin noise field.
The famous bouncing DVD logo animation. The only twist I've added is that it will never hit a corner exactly. I do this by initiallizing the position with irrational numbers, but only ever advancing position by integers. In this way we know we'll never hit a corner since they are positioned at integer x-y-coordinates.
A clock represents the passage of time by the movement of three arms rotating in front of a circular face. But what if we broke those rules? 'Time After Time' is an experiment in visualizing time in different ways.
A cube is spinning in space, with six orbiting lights. The scene is rendered twice, once for each eye. If you cross your eyes to each fix on a different half of the screen, your perception will be tricked into perceiving depth.
Initially intended to play around with Moiré effects, I ended up dialling everything up to 11 and making this eyeball torturer.
A browser bookmarklet for providing hints while playing Wordle. The provided hint is chosen at random without prior knowledge of the actual answer.
A little experiment with voronoi cells. A cloud of points travel randomly across the world space, while every frame the space is divided by Voronoi cells. The heavy lifting is done by d3-delaunay
Animates a rotating tiling system. I got the idea for this while looking at a brick wall and observing that the conventional brick laying pattern is great at preventing slipping vertically but not horizontally. So I started wondering about tiling patterns which don't allow slippage in any direction, and I made this to help me visualize it.
A minimal interface for performing Gravatar lookups. If a matching Gravatar is not found, an Identicon is displayed instead.
A simple weight tracker. Data is only stored in localstorage, unique to your device and browser. No networking, no tracking, not a single API call after the page load.
A one-day hack to build a physics simulation, which aims to demonstrate that temperature mixing is an emergent property of thermal expansion. Got the idea for this while watching a pot of water boil.
A little test of three.js, which itself uses WebGL. Renders a rotating cube and some point lights in real time. A great example of how JavaScript can be used to leverage graphics hardware.
Hand made raytracer using only Typescript. A fun experiment in the mathematics of perspective geometry. Performance is very much bottlenecked by the browser. But becomes fully memoized after 100 frames.
A minimal frontend to the brilliant An API of Ice and Fire. Featuring pagination, filtering and a little memoization.
A reusable React component and hook library. Complete with test coverage, extensive documentation and publically available Storybook. Living documentation is generated dynamically by JSDocs coming directly from the source code itself. Primarily an exercise in perfecting project processes, rather than creating a lot of content.