AI

Minecraft to 3D

A pipeline that converts any Minecraft world into a high-quality polygonal scene for major 3D engines. Presented at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Digital Twin

StreamTwin

A decentralized digital-twin framework that uses public webcams and browser-based edge computing to visualize real-time traffic conditions.

AI

SequorRT

A small companion robot that uses real-time computer vision and a remote PC "brain" to intelligently follow people around.

AI

Visum Dei

An experimental device that explores contextual privacy by using real-time facial recognition to identify and personally address users, spar…

AI

Vision Language Time

An experimental clock that uses a Vision-Language Model on a Raspberry Pi to perceive and interpret the time of day from a live camera feed.

AI

Agentic Exploration

A real-time world-modeling system for games, where agents reconstruct their environment like tiny autonomous vehicles.

AI

OpenCityAI

The first large-scale chatbot using city data (March 2023), trained on over 200,000 open city datasets for optimized question answering.

Data

Functional Heatmap

A real-time visualization system for conditioned time-dependent functions that represents their movement in heatmaps.

AI

SafeMate

A RAG chatbot developed for a $100k UT Austin & City of Austin grant to provide citizens with factual information during climate and weather…

Data

OpenCityCorpus

A large‑scale urban data corpus (~200 GB) harmonized from over 200 cities to provide a unified, searchable repository for AI and urban r...

Data

SmartCityData

A platform for accessing and visualizing smart city data in real-time, helping urban planners make informed decisions.

Data

UT Photogrammetry

With a small grant and a DJI drone, we captured high-resolution images of iconic UT Austin landmarks to produce detailed, geolocated 3D mode…

Web

Laurel Co-op Website

A comprehensive website developed for the Laurel Cooperative in Austin, showcasing community life and streamlining member operations.

Web

NY Nonprofit Search

A free, open-source search engine and API for all IRS-registered nonprofits in New York, built with fuzzy search for easy discovery.

Web

translate.love

A free, open-source machine translation API supporting over 30 languages, born from a desire to make translation universally accessible.

Games

Godot Websockets

A template for a 3D multiplayer game in Godot Engine using Websockets, featuring player customization and a basic multiplayer structure.

Games

Python Minesweeper

A classic logic puzzle game, rebuilt from scratch in Python with SDL by a team of four students at Texas A&M University.

Games

Patchwork Beast

The first ecocentric game from Aspen Games, a not-for-profit game development startup. Selected for "Best Art" at SXSW GDC² 2025.

Games

Fishori

A peaceful idle fishing game where you recruit shipwrecked heroes, explore a mysterious island, and fish your way from rags to riches.

Games

OpenGL Minecraft

An implementation of a Minecraft-inspired scene using OpenGL, featuring instancing and animation techniques to create a dynamic 3D environme…