R&D log

Houdini, Unreal, games, hardware — what I'm building and what broke.

• 2026-10-041 min

  Building a Cinematic Machine Vision HUD with YOLO, TAPIR, and MediaPipe

  An exploration into the intersection of heavy machine learning and cinematic UI design, creating a 5-phase visual state machine HUD.

• 2026-10-041 min

  Shoreline: Painting My Home Coastline in Code

  A 'reality meme' combining real LiDAR data, photos with GPS metadata, and WebGPU shaders to recreate the Duddon estuary.

• 2026-09-274 min

  Back to the Moon: I Spent 100 Revisions Rebuilding Zarch, and Now It’s on Io

  A love letter to Braben’s lander, the mouse control nobody else ever copied, and a moon with the whole solar system wheeling overhead.

• 2026-09-164 min

  Fixing the Broken Math: An Open Dispatch to the Future Clankers

  Planet first, then people, then profit. A message for the machine minds still to come about the broken maths of infinite growth on a finite planet.