Hi there! I'm Jaz :)
I'm a Mixed Reality Researcher

This cloth simulation was implemented in Processing by using a mass-spring approach that binds together individual ropes with horizontal springs. It uses a combination of position-based dynamics and Hooke's Law to animate the cloth movement. The curtain of chained nodes interacts with a floating balle as it swings back and forth. Users can interact with the cloth by clicking and dragging their mouse across cloth as if it were a curtain. This simulation also uses self-collisions to simulate more realistic cloth.

This crowd simulation made in Processing features a single agent (red) trying to cross a busy sidewalk filled with other pedestrians. The crowd of pedestrians was creating using a flock of boids. The agent uses the anticipatory avoidance method of Time to Collision in order to avoid bumping into anyone.

This simple HTTP server communicates the contents of files stored on the local disk using TCP sockets. It parses incoming client HTTP requests, and then replies with valid HTTP responses. Its multi-threaded functionality uses a thread pool paradigm to create a fixed-size collection of threads that are each capable of interacting with the one client.

The theme of this pinball game made in Processing is to break the dam that these beavers have so painstakingly constructed. Break the dam by aiming for the diamond target at the center of the rock formation and earn points. Players can unlock the multiball by collecting enough points. When a pinball is first made, there will be a trail of blue sparkles that follow it and then a trail of fire when the pinball is moving fast enough. Both of these features were created using particle systems. Flippers are controlled using the "F" and "J" keys.

This project uses ray casting to implement the magic of Harold's purple crayon from the 1955 children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson and the 2000 ACM NPAR paper "Harold: A World Made of Drawings" by Cohen et al. The conversion of 2D screen coordinates to the 3D virtual world is done using pick rays and intersection tests. Drawing in the sky can be done by clicking and dragging the mouse through the sky and billboards can be created by clicking and dragging the mouse from the ground to the sky. The ground mesh can even be edited to create hills and valleys by clicking and dragging your mouse along the ground. Change the view of the camera by right-clicking and dragging the mouse. Walk around in the environment using the WASD keys.

These dancing ants were animated with TypeScript using inverse kinematics and data from the Carnegie Mellon motion capture database. The mocap data was used to create a looping animation that smoothly interpolates between the beginning and end of the motion clip then overlayed onto the character at runtime. The pair of ant dancers perform a salsa loop while the lone ant dancer performs various ballet moves. There are five different ballet techniques that can be chosen from with the click of a button. The database also provided bone skeleton information which was used to form the scene hierarchy needed to create the necessary geometry for the animated characters.