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william chou

Call me Will. I am a computer nerd, dance enthusiast, art hack, and devout gamer.

I write code for a living and I make games in my spare time. You can find some of my projects here.

wc264REMOVE@cornellCAPPED.eduWORDS


(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

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résumé

As of early 2010 — 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.