The Little Grasshopper

An ECS lite architecture
Small write-up about my chip layout renderer.
2025-04-12 software engineering rust
WebGL renderer for chip layouts
Rendering layout data for integrated circuits with Rust and WebGL.
2025-03-17 graphics hardware
Extracting Faces from Graphs
How we extract faces from Arcol sketches. The cool part is the wedge algorithm from Jiang and Bunke.
2024-01-08 geometry graphics graph theory
Make a Daily Pull Request
My personal PR philosophy for achieving developer happiness.
2023-02-04 software engineering
Serialization-based undo
How I used zstd compression to implement an undo system for Blockdown.
2021-10-15 c++
C++ as a scripting language
How I used dynamic linking to quickly iterate on Blockdown puzzles.
2021-09-17 c++
Exploring Special Relativity
I coded up some Exploratorium style interactive diagrams to learn about special relativity.
2021-09-04 physics
Generating SVG for the Prime Knots
How I created a wall poster of knot diagrams.
2020-07-28 graph theory
Kauffman's Cross Products Paper
How the Four Color Theorem relates to the algebra of cross products.
2020-05-31 graph theory
Tait Coloring
Tait coloring and the Four Color Theorem.
2020-05-23 graph theory
The Graceful Tree Conjecture
Graceful labelings on graphs and the GTC.
2020-03-23 graph theory
My American lineage
An interactive sunburst visualization of my father's pedigree.
2020-03-17 personal visualization
Page turn animation
Deforming a page in a book.
2020-02-19 graphics animation
Octasphere Tessellation
The virtues of the humble subdivided octahedron.
2019-12-18 graphics python
Perfect Panning
Pan and zoom like Google Maps, but with perspective.
2019-11-14 math
Euler's Polyhedron Formula
Legendre's proof of the polyhedron formula using scrollytelling.
2019-09-01 math
Split-free occlusion sorting
Random musings on occlusion sorting and collision detection.
2019-07-31 graphics
3D Wireframes in SVG
Using Python to generate 3D line art.
2019-07-06 graphics python
par_streamlines.h
My tiny C library for triangulating wide lines, Béziers, and streamlines.
2019-06-29 graphics
Identity Theft
Timeline of my 2018 saga with identity theft.
2019-01-22 personal
Distance Fields
Generating and visualizing distance fields.
2018-10-06 graphics image processing
prideout/snowy
Small Python 3 module for manipulating and generating images.
2018-09-03 graphics python
streamlines
Rendering streamlines for data visualization.
2018-07-18 graphics visualization
Animated Strava Paths
Fun with Strava Activities, D3, and Google Maps.
2017-12-04 python javascript
par_sprune.h
My tiny C library for broad phase collision detection in 2D.
2016-02-19 graphics
par_bubbles.h
Single file C library for enclosing points with disks and making bubble diagrams.
2016-01-22 graphics
par_shapes.h
Generate triangle meshes from parametric surfaces, polyhedra, and L-systems.
2016-01-10 graphics
prideout/aobaker
Quick and dirty ambient occlusion baking tool.
2016-01-02 rendering
Remember 3Dlabs?
Reminiscing about my corporate alma mater.
2015-12-31 personal
GPU Particles
GPU-Driven Particles with WebGL 1.0.
2015-12-25 opengl graphics
Zoomable Texturing
Texture experiments with highly zoomable content.
2015-12-20 opengl graphics
Marching Squares
My single-file C library for generating triangles from images.
2015-12-06 graphics
Headless Rendering
Diary of adventures with headless OpenGL on an EC2 server.
2015-11-04 opengl cloud nvidia
Recursive Wang Tiles
My single-file C library for generating progressive blue noise sequences via Recursive Wang Tiles.
2015-10-25 opengl
Emulating Double Precision
How to cheat your vertex shader into doing a more precise transform.
2015-10-12 opengl
Coordinate Fields
Discusses an interesting way to encode unsigned distance.
2015-09-15 opengl rendering
prideout/heman
My own little open-source C library for doing heightmap stuff.
2015-08-13 rendering
Quad Meshes
Tricks for rendering quad meshes with OpenGL (core profile) and computing smooth normals with transform feedback.
2013-06-08 opengl
Organic Animation
Demonstrates a type of 2D animation that's better suited to WebGL than Canvas 2D.
2013-05-06 webgl
Ear Clipping
Tessellation of concave polygons (with holes) in Javascript, using a simple ear clipping algorithm.
2012-11-13 webgl
Knot Gallery
Interactive gallery of the prime knots through 9 crossings.
2012-06-02 webgl
Modern Opengl
Prezo on Modern OpenGL that I put together for my colleagues.
2012-05-09 opengl
Fluid Sim
I open sourced my purely OpenGL-based volumetric fluid sim.
2012-05-07 opengl
Sympy Surfaces
Generate interesting parametric surfaces using SymPy.
2012-05-06 opengl python
Barrel Distortion
Playing with barrel distortion.
2012-03-17 opengl
Strings Inside Vertex Buffers
Stupid OpenGL trick: embed a raw C string in a vertex buffer.
2012-03-01 opengl
Distance Picking
Create a distance field on the GPU, use it for point selection.
2012-02-23 opengl
Clip Planes
How to use clip planes in modern OpenGL.
2012-02-12 opengl
Go And Renderman
RenderMan bindings for Google's new language go.
2011-12-29 golang renderman