Ray Tracing Engine
Python, Tkinter
This program was part of a larger series of Computer Graphics projects that creates a virtual world with its own viewpoint and directional system. It contains a scene with three spheres, a sky background, and a checkerboard floor. I was able to make all objects within this scene appear highly reflective by utilizing reflection and refraction algorithms. Furthermore, all objects in the scene were brightly colored using the Phong Illumination Method.
Nethken Nature Preserve
Unreal Engine 5, Blender, GitHub, OBS Studio, Niagra FX
This was an academic project that lasted 3 months during a Computer Graphics course. A 3rd-person video game set in an immersive, visually-appealing world. Originally our four-person team was tasked with creating an open world game, but we lost a member after production began. Our focus was geared towards the scenery and detail of the map, rather than gameplay mechanics. We chose to replicate a portion of our university campus, Nethken Hall, with extreme detail and a wild twist. The map was full of easter-eggs, and featured contrasting landscapes. Click here to view the video
MNIST Image Recognition
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Java, IntelliJ IDE
This program utilizes the MNIST database of human, hand-written digits to teach computer systems to recognize numbers. The architecture is a fully connected, feed-forward neural network that uses stochastic-gradient descent and back-propagation. Some of the impressive features are: uploading a previously trained network, seeing the digitized images as the network learns, viewing misclassified images, and saving a trained network.