Miner 75
A SCI-ARC thesis film with concept work, matte paintings, and VFX pre-visualization. I assisted Christian Pepper with production.
Related Projects
Earth Vis
An experiment in converting NASA climate data into a real-time VFX graph visualization. For this project, I built a system in Unity where a compute shader drives particles across a globe in polar coordinates, sampling precomputed flowmaps for wind speed and direction, while their trails change color based on temperature.
The Austere
CRITICAL MASS Student Choice Award, 2018A speculative project that imagines a near-future of climate catastrophe where corporations provide prefabricated housing tied to labor contracts. Originally a design-build proposal for the U.S. Solar Decathlon, I reformulated the work to explore how speculative design could feel more imminent and unsettling. Instead of distant hyperbole, the project grounded its extreme scenario in plausible economic and social trends, positioning it between architectural proposal, narrative fiction, and propaganda artifact. Exhibited as a large-format presentation board and later as an augmented reality installation, the work won the Student Choice Award at Critical Mass in 2018.
Bezeliness Intensifies
A series of light sculptures and pen-plotted transparent graphics exploring the aesthetics of frames and bezels through space-filling curves, packing algorithms, and reaction-diffusion simulations. The work blended 3D printing, pen plotting, reactive lighting, and other digital production techniques. It was installed in three locations: the UIUC School of Architecture, the Broadway Food Hall, and a six-month window display on Urbana's main street.
Minotaur
Minotaur is a digital marble maze inspired by the classic BRIO Labyrinth board game, where players tilt a board to navigate a ball around holes. It also served as my earliest experiment with embedded analytics—I built a system that records play sessions and sends summary data to a Clowder data repository. This work enabled long-term data collection, and the results from over three years and thousands of play sessions are analyzed in this report.