Hello Worlds

Creating procedural cities, planets, and worlds - mostly using web technologies.

Linguist-turned-programmer interested in answering the question "what gives a virtual somewhere a sense of place"?

Current Projects

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  Habitat (9 stars)

  A vignette of an O'Neill orbital habitat using @hello-worlds/react and a playground for various graphics programming and land generation techniques

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  Hello Worlds (132 stars)

  Virtual javascript worlds at planetary scales for your threejs or react-three-fiber scene 👋🌐

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  Terrain Synth (66 stars)

  Example-based Terrain Generation powered by real-earth datasets and machine-learning

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  World Synth (6 stars)

  Planetary creation foundation for experimenting with various tectonic, climate, and other models over a space-to-ground rendering of the entire world.

Recent Posts

• Never-graduating Checkout: Reflections on my batch at RC

  Posted on:February 12, 2024 |  at 12:00 AM

  In which I reflect on RC and what it means to learn and grow as a programmer.

• Modeling Verisimilitudinous Worlds: Part 1 - Tectonic Plates

  Posted on:February 5, 2024 |  at 12:00 AM

  In which we begin to model the tectonic plates of our world, and grow them into continents and oceans.

• Spherical Spatial Hashing + Weblog

  Posted on:January 16, 2024 |  at 12:00 AM

  Only 3 weeks left in RC, so instead of working on my other projects, I created a new one! welcome to World Synth!

• Holiday Break + Terrain Synth Updates

  Posted on:January 3, 2024 |  at 12:00 AM

  During the break here I've been focusing mainly on graphics related stuff. You can see the biggest differences has been the appearence of shadows and some glowy 'skybox' to the scene. I've also poked around with the vertex coloring height-based lerping.