Preface 'Heaven's Few' is a game for VR that I've been slowly iterating on since 2019. The game is still in pre-production stage, with the goal of delivering a playable vertical slice running on Meta Quest. Since the history of this idea is spread out over time and scattered across old notes, screenshots, and Discord messages, this retrospective is me collecting everything into…
Below are notes on how I set up Nerfstudio on an EC2 g5.xlarge instance, for a project where I reconstruct a mall using pictures I took in 2018 . I turned these images into Gaussian splats, then used the Luma AI plugin for Unreal Engine 5 to stitch the splats together into a walkable first-person experience. https://docs.nerf.studio/quickstart/installation.html Set up AWS…
Earlier this year, Notion's flaws had frustrated me enough to get me to spend days moving all my stuff to a new notes application called Obsidian . Unlike Notion, Obsidian is a notes system that operates on top of a simple folder of notes - notes are stored as plain .md files, organized in regular folders. All notes and attachments are local and can be regularly accessed with a file explorer.…
Sometime last year was when I think the Internet's fascination with "liminal spaces" reached its peak, mostly with the "backrooms" greentext reaching tumblr, youtube, twitter, etc., and in context I think the fascination with images like that of the backrooms makes perfect sense. It ties deeply with the Y2K nostalgia of today's gen Z and millenials, part of a greater nostalgia wave that…
It's been two years since I started programming. I keep a tracker of how many days it's been since my first program on repl.it - its first revision being dated Feb 27, 2019. Edit history of RobotRat.cs It's when I started the book "C# for Artists" by Rick Miller, and the first assignment I completed when deciding to pick up programming seriously. "RobotRat" doesn't even compile…
Portfolio Some games and prototypes I have made or helped make. All of these can be played on my itch.io page. factoria 2018 (2024) Download on Windows, Mac In Winter 2018 I took more than a thousand pictures of "The Marketplace at Factoria", a small mall in Bellevue, WA near where I grew up, intending to reconstruct the main interior of the mall using photogrammetry and create a real-time walking…
If you're reading this then I have finished the initial setup of this website. I'm hoping to use it as an easier, centralized way to track and record anything I've been working on. things I want to add to the site: banner image in portfolio (maybe use it in resume too) interactive p5 gallery in portfolio (ideally hosting the scripts externally on their existing repo) Locally host…