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Ruler

Ruler: A straight-forward, general-purpose build tool written in Rust. Home page here: rulerbuild.com

PovRay Gallery

PovRay is an open-source raytracer with its own scripting language for describing scenes. It render beautiful images and animations. It is a dinosaur, but also, there is no modern software quite like it. Some example images here: Gallery

Dylan's Yo-yo

Grad students at UC Santa Barbara while I was there were allowed to take any class, even undergraduate classes not particularly related to their field of study. I took advantage of this one time. I took was an Animation class, and it changed my life. One of the homework assignments was to create a "cycle", a short animated video clip that loops. This one was mine; it's called Dylan's Yo-yo: Dylan's Yo-yo on YouTube

Multiplication Tables for Symmetric and Alternating Groups

During a long layover I wrote a python script to generate svgs of multiplication tables for permutation groups. Here is the result: Multiplication Tables for Symmetric and Alternating Groups

Lightbulb

In around 2007, I spent months using low-level tools to make this 3D model of a lightbulb, and then my computer spent days rendering it. Lightbulb on YouTube