william chou

Call me Will. I am a game programmer, dance enthusiast, art hack, and budding musician. You can find some of my projects here.

table of contents

1. résumé

2. programming

3. blog

4. dance

5. coursework

   1. graphics

   2. game design

6. other projects

   1. invention universe

   2. rainmakers

résumé

Current as of early 2012 — available in HTML and PDF.

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programming

My programming projects at my online repository.

Consists of mostly Flash games and game-related code written in ActionScript.

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blog

Musings on code, art, life.

On the off chance you are bored enough to listen.

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absolute zero

Absolute Zero is Cornell University's premiere breakdance crew.

My bboy name is "Slowbro", after the lethargic and laggardly Pokémon.

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graphics @ cornell

Interactive CG [CS5620]

Parallax mapping (FP, VP).

A choppy sample video (14.3 MB).

Physically Based Animation [CS5643]

Smoke control report and a short demo.

Realistic Image Synthesis [CS6630]

Irradiance caching (render, map) vs. photon mapping (render).

IC: 4 min; 15^2 indirect samples, 4k caustic photons
Photon: 22 min; 87k photons

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game design @ cornell

Intro to Game Design [CIS3000]

Symptom, an original vertical scroller for PC. Written in C# and XNA.

Video capture of a short level.

NSF Computational Sustainability Game

"YourTown", a city-building simulation game that teaches linear programming.

For the Xbox360. Written in C# and XNA. More information coming soon.

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"invention universe"

A game-like social webapp for kids with an educational theme (by BIY).

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"rainmakers"

A humanitarian web project dreamt up by one of my longtime friends.

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