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A home for the playful things — interactive demos, graphics experiments, and side projects I've made over the years. Poke around; most of them are live and clickable.

Fluid Background The drifting blobs behind every page are a real-time fluid simulation I built from scratch — with several modes you can switch between using the ✦ control in the corner. WebGLGraphics

Conway's Game of Life The classic cellular automaton, reimagined as soft-body metaballs — cells spring to life, melt away, and shift through a rainbow as they age. InteractiveCanvas

Jelly A soft-body physics toy — squishy jelly blobs built from mass-springs and internal pressure that you can grab, fling, and watch wobble. InteractivePhysics

Souls Quick Menu 115k+ downloads A Skyrim mod that brings a Dark Souls–style radial quick menu to the game, for fast weapon, spell, and item swapping mid-combat. Skyrim mod

Desk Scene A cozy CSS-only recreation of my desk — flickering lamp, steaming coffee, and a live alarm clock. Almost entirely pure HTML & CSS. CSS artCodePen

Marriott 360° AR Experience A WebVR experience for a Marriott conference — 360° panoramic hotel tours viewable in Google Cardboard or Oculus, scaled to ~1,000 concurrent users. WebVRReact

Code℞ The applied prototype from my master's thesis — an online evaluator that grades C++ and Python solutions on code-quality metrics, not just correctness, to teach beginners to write better code. ResearchEducation

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