projects

Exploring how clocks would look like with different counts of hours and minutes.

Perlin noise is more realistic than random noise. Here I explore the visual effects of plotting Perlin noise with various parameters

Efficient rendering of tally marks. Take a look at how old you are in days, it's not that big.

NYC bars and clubs by the number. An exploration of an alternative indexing of business listings.

Search tool for finding word extensions for the word game Snatch (Anagrams)

Artist-inspired filters applied to photos

Inspired by Sakichi Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno, this "chatbot" guides you through the process of asking "Why?

A font poster generator, this allows you to customize and order a variety of typographic posters and prints

All maps are abstractions of reality: this is an exploration of how the NYC subways look with various projections

Found typography from New York City: non-letters that look like letters

Easily create new words by mashing together lists of other words

Generate tiled patterns easily by drawing on this canvas

Mondrian's "Compsition II in Red, Blue and Yellow", remixed on the fly

A simple way to look up scrabble words

A legible handwriting font

Alphabetizes a page's letters, and then sorts them back to the correct order

Taking a simple shape, like a heart, and drawing it over and over leads to some interesting patterns. This was a product of Valentines day; a card that's different each time you look at it.

Imagine using a font as a pasta extruder, but with a little color and animation thrown in. This is an experiment with stacking up text-shadows on HTML text.

Draw with circles using your mouse or fingers. By restricting the realm of possibilities, you you're forced to be quite creative. You can also view other people's drawings.

Jennifer Egan won a Pulitzer prize for A Visit From The Goon Squad – it’s a complex book full of links between characters, between different spaces and times. This is a visualization of the ‘social network’ in the book, as it develops through the pages.

Nature has many very complicated patterns that emerge from simple rules being applied over and over. This demo allows you to explore tree and root shapes by altering a few parameter

The periodic table's most commonly known design was made in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev. This is my take on it, with some HTML5 flair and a quiz to test your knowledge

The computer mouse was truly an innovation in user interface technology -- but other improvements can lead to faster and more accurate performance. This is an exploration of the bubble cursor which may increase selection speed.

In many older train stations and airports, information would be displayed on large boards where letters would flip through the alphabet to the correct location. This project brings that to the internet

A fat, blocky font I developed in support of encoding QR codes using text. Each letter takes up most of a square with black

This is a small processing.js sketch that uses circles to draw lines

The goal of the majority of user interface design is to make working with a computer easier. This is a sketch to demonstate a way to make it harder

When developing a webpage or website, it's useful to see many prototypes before commiting to a design. This Chrome Extension allows users to manipulate webpages through the browser, by dragging and dropping

Langton's Ant is a cellular automaton that, although seemingly random, displays some interesting emergent behavior. This is a simulation of this rule.

QR codes pose an interesting way to convey digital information through a visual medium. realtimeQR is a port of the QR encoder to javascript, allowing realtime generation of QR codes

One of the greatest things about college is the ability to eat in a dining hall, often more a social experience than a culinary one. This tool brings easier access to the menus at Harvard, letting you make that crucial decision whether to go downstairs or to just content with Ramen

HTML5 exposes a lot of interesting new tools for web designers, especially with regard to moving storage from servers to clients. This is a tool that facilitates the creation and debugging of websites taking advantage of HTML5 localStorage

What would the Leaning Tower of Pisa look like upright? Thankfully, using photo manipulation, some things can be fixed. Have fun adjusting the Pisa Tower to an angle of your choice.