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Smart Room Sensor Visualization

A more detailed account of the full study and sensor suite is currently being drafted for publication. Background Humanity has made it to the moon. The next step is Mars. In the mission to Mars there is much more to consider to …

Volumetric Rendering Wedges

This is a slice from the wisp wedge showing different possible parameters for rendering a wisp volume. For my spring 2025 CPSC8190: Physically Based Effects class with Dr. Jerry Tessendorf, I developed wedges of different types of …

Drawing in Qualtrics

Qualtrics is a great tool for conducting surveys, and I have only recently started playing around with making surveys of my own. For a survey I’m working on now, I needed to figure out a way to allow participants to draw on an image to …

Poly Lands

For my Virtual Reality Engineering class, I created a small adventure story set in the fictional Poly Lands to help connect the different demos. The story first implements wayfinding to guide the player to the market. Then the story utilizes …

BEAMvr

For my Mixed Reality Project class, I pitched the idea of creating a virtual reality rapid architectural modeling application that could also simulate different lighting conditions. This isn’t a novel idea, but it encompasses many of the types of …

Neural Net Model Comparisons

This is a continuation of my last post on building a web scaper to use with TensorFlow Playground. I described how I wrote the code for my web scraper using Selenium, so I could run trials with different conditions for different …

Playing With Web Scrapers and Neural Nets

If you are interested in learning about neural networks, TensorFlow Playground is a great resource for helping build intuition about how they work. The interface is user friendly and allows for lots of customizations. I …

Vuforia Demos

To learn concepts of augmented reality engineering, I implemented demos using Unity, Vuforia, and a mobile phone. A full playlist of the demos can be found here (augmented reality).

IR Camera Testing

One of my main responsibilities so far since I started grad school has been to get six Flir Boson IR cameras to work simultaneously. This is just one of the sensors we are using for our smart room project, and so far it has been the most …

Making This Site With Hugo

It felt like it was time for a change on my personal site, and I wanted to integrate a blog feature on my site so I could document some of my PhD journey. I also wanted to do it as cheap as possible in true computer scientist fashion. …