Your browser does not support the video tag. I wanted to play with glsl and godot, so I experimented with making a ripple effect inspired by the macOS Drift screensaver. Each line is drawn with a shader Roughly, the high level steps were: Spawn a grid of mesh instances using MeshInstance2D Space them out organically in a circle using blue noise Render each mesh’s texture with a shader Draw a…
If you think in one language and speak in another, things can get ծուռիկ-մուռիկ :) Growing up in an Armenian speaking house in LA, my brothers and I would often say grammatically incorrect sentences that were direct translations of English thoughts. Sometimes these sentences would be so silly that they would be exchanged as jokes at family gatherings. “What do you mean you lost your soccer game?…
I taught a creative coding workshop in February 2023. Below is a reflection on how it went and what I would do differently next time. The workshop was taught to twelve teens ages 12 to 19, over five days, for five hours each day. ()], I was pretty happy with the results! The students seemed to be improving day to day, most of them found the subject matter engaging and the work they created was…
Mimic is a short puzzle game where you move in the pattern of animals to take their form. You can play it here in your browser :) The seed was planted during a game jam and after tinkering at it for over a year I released it on itch.io . It got pretty good reception and I learned a lot throughout the development. Below are reflections on some of those learnings with concrete examples to provide…
Made a lowpoly moka pot model in picoCAD , a very intuitive 3D modeling software built on the PICO-8 platform.
I heard about The Recurse Center from a friend and applied with the hopes of exploring creative coding in a structured and social setting. The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers based in New York City. It turned out to be a fantastic decision. I learned a ton, made great friends and came out with the skills, knowledge and determination to pursue…
Religious carvings in Armenia save space by using ligatures . example I experimented with combining arial unicode armenian letters to create typographic ligature. Ա + Բ Կ + Ե Ն + Ա * this post was created retroactively in june 2021