Data Forest
A framework which visualizes crowds and human movement through digital forests. An interactive installation, ATLAS Expo 2026.
Interactive Installations
2025 – 2026
Data Forest
Data Forest is an interactive installation that turns foot traffic into a living digital forest, rendered in real time in Unity.
Four camera micro-zones around the building run YOLOv8 person detection on OpenCV video streams and report per-zone crowd counts to a custom aggregation server. The vision and render workloads run on two separate machines connected over direct Ethernet with static IPs.
In Unity, the aggregated crowd data drives where trees spawn and how fast they grow, with per-tree growth animated through MaterialPropertyBlocks. Optical flow from the cameras streams over UDP to drive Unity's WindZone, so the canopy sways harder as people move faster, and a browser-based pose-detection layer adds an audio track that responds to visitors in front of the piece.
Behind the system is a specific feeling: standing in front of a scale model of the building you are currently inside, except the model is alive and being redrawn by the people around you, most of whom will never see it. Watching it makes you part of it. The full intent is explained on the project's info page.
Web Systems
2023 – Present
Boulder Alleycat
boulderalleycat.com is the digital home for Boulder Alleycat, a racing event I co-organized with my roommate Doug in 2023 to revive the underground racing culture in the city. To do so, I built a custom QR-based checkpoint tool which enables real-time progress tracking and automatic timing and split data collection. The tool transformed the race format, allowing races to be organized quicker and cheaper, without dedicated personnel, and with accurate live racer tracking.
The website's primary purpose is an archive of past races. Users can browse through each of the 10 (so far) races and look at the winners in both categories, their times, and what checkpoints the racers had to visit in order to finish. The newest and most exciting feature is a 3D visualization of the route taken by the fastest racer. A hallmark characteristic of Boulder Alleycat races is that checkpoints can be collected in any order, encouraging creative pathfinding. As a result, the 3D visualizations bring the race data to life and offer fresh perspectives on the routes taken by seasoned cyclists.
2025 – Present
CU Boulder Ultimate Frisbee Website System
A three-team website system for CU Boulder's ultimate frisbee program: Mamabird (men's A-team), CKFT (men's B-team), and Quandary (women's A-team). All three sites share one JavaScript core with team-specific data files and stylesheets for unique branding.
Key Features: Dynamic year-based roster browser with historical lineups dating back to 2013, auto-filtering team leadership sections, descriptive tournament schedules, and video galleries with YouTube integration. Player cards link to ulti-verse.com profiles for career stats. Each site features clean animations and hash-based single-page navigation.
Built from scratch with vanilla JavaScript with zero dependencies beyond a library for 3D graphics. The shared codebase architecture demonstrates efficient code reuse while maintaining distinct team identities through modular data structures (ROSTER_DATA, TOURNAMENT_DATA, VIDEO_DATA). Sub-200KB payload, 60fps animations, and responsive design prove vanilla JavaScript can power sophisticated multi-site systems without framework overhead.
2026
Orbital Fence
Orbital Fence is a single-page 3D console for tracking orbital debris, modelled on NAVSPASUR, the VHF space surveillance fence that ran along the 33rd parallel until 2013. A hex-tiled globe turns on a marked spin axis, carrying a sensor sheet that stands on a line of ground sites. Objects are invisible until they trip that sheet, and a transit is what yields a catalogue number, an element set and a track.
The objects are real: 2,771 element sets from CelesTrak, propagated with SGP4 and joined against the SATCAT so every contact carries its true name, NORAD number and radar cross-section. The master site sits at Lake Kickapoo, Texas, and the planet's rotation comes from Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time, so elevation, azimuth, range and range rate are measurements from a real place at a real time.
Nothing is drawn until the fence has seen it. The page opens on an empty sky and fills in live as the sheet catches things, because watching the catalogue build is the piece. Zero dependencies, 118 headless unit tests.
Physical Computing & Fabrication
2025
Automatic Microgreen Greenhouse Filing Cabinet
A fully automated growing system built within a standard filing cabinet by my group for our "Hacking the Apocalypse" course.
This project combines electrical engineering, Arduino programming, and mechanical design to create an autonomous growing environment. The system monitors soil moisture, and uses a system of misters to water the soil when necessary. A bank of fans is programmed to ventilate air after watering to mitigate mold and fungus growth. Grow lights allow the microgreens to thrive even when the drawers are closed.
The system demonstrates practical engineering, proving that sustainable food production can happen anywhere with smart automation.
2024
SillBot
SillBot is the final project I designed and constructed for the "Object" class at CU Boulder, focusing on physical manufacturing, electrical engineering, and Arduino integration.
Built from scratch, the machine detects ambient air temperature and uses a lead screw as a linear actuator to automatically open and close a sliding window. Left running during the hot Front Range summers, it uses fans to effectively regulate bedroom temperature through responsive automation.
Read more about the specifics, building process, and code here.
2025
Parametric Race Trophy with Grasshopper
For my Advanced Computational Fabrication class, I designed custom parametric trophies for the Boulder Alleycat race series using Grasshopper. Each trophy is tailored to physically show the route taken by the racer by mapping race data onto a 3D topological model of campus.
The system extracts checkpoint coordinates from Google Maps and checkpoint order from my live tracking tool, then generates a personalized 3D model. The Grasshopper logic places markers at exact locations, aligns them with terrain height, and connects them with pipes that follow the race route while maintaining prominence over the topographic base. Race metadata (racer number, race ID, and final time) is dynamically positioned on the trophy.
The parametric system is designed to be reusable — I can generate a new custom trophy for any race simply by updating the coordinates and checkpoint order. The final models were 3D printed on a Bambu Labs printer. Read more here.
Apparel Design
2022 / 2024 / 2026
Sports Jerseys
I've designed custom jerseys and apparel for two athletic teams, combining technical and design expertise to enhance team identity.
Co-Motion Sports 25th Anniversary Mountain Biking Jersey: I designed a limited-edition anniversary jersey celebrating Co-Motion Sports' legacy in the mountain biking community. The design incorporates anniversary branding with modern aesthetics.
CKFT (University of Colorado Club Ultimate B Team) Logo & Reversible Pinnie: I designed a custom logo for the team, to be used on everything from merchandise to social media postings and beyond. Additionally, I designed and ordered a reversible pinnie with the logo and a few other small details, to be used by the players at practices. The design was universally accepted and loved by the team members, and now stands as CKFT's official logo.
These projects demonstrate my ability to translate team identity and community values into wearable design that athletes are proud to represent.
Sketches
2024
Glyphs & Gravity
Words are what give letters meaning. If the strict structure of written language is removed, do the remaining glyphs still carry meaning?
Glyphs & Gravity is an experimental typography tool that lets users bring letters to life with dynamic physics and creative animations. From structured layouts to freeform gravity, spinning, and bouncing effects, the tool combines playful interactions with typographic exploration.
Built from scratch in JavaScript (p5.js), it allows users to toggle features like gravity, rotation, and even font, creating a unique playground for symbols and motion.
2026
Infinite Automatic UNO
Four bots play UNO forever on a green felt table. Each player has a different strategy and personality; one plays the odds, one goes after whoever is closest to winning, one hoards its wild cards, one trusts the shuffle. A diverse collection of stats and graphs display every decision and it's effects.
Infinite Automatic UNO is the third version of a sketch I first built as a fixed 16:9 wallpaper. Now, in it's final form, the sketch aesthetically demonstrates the ups and downs of the beloved card game. Check it out!
2026
Lava Lamp
A simulated lava lamp. Wax takes heat by conduction from the bulb in the base and loses it to the surrounding substrate, getting colder with height. Each glob rises, cools and falls on its own.
Lava Lamp is drawn entirely in one WebGL fragment shader. The wax is a metaball isosurface built on a compact support kernel, lit only by the bulb beneath it, so thin wax glows and a glob's underside reads warmer than its shaded top. Seven bottle profiles and seven colors to choose from, and a flow speed slider for adjustability. There's even a switch that cuts the light and leaves the wax to settle in the cold dark.