A collection of technical explorations, experiments and digital art projects.
Ask Nico - A chat interface where you can ask whether Nico can help with your professional project, give advice, or share an opinion. Answers are grounded in his resume, case studies, blog posts, and site content.
Branching Tendrils - Interactive generative art where tendrils grow from mouse movement uses L-system branching patterns.
Circle Ecosystem - Interactive system where circles with emergent behaviors respond to your presence.
Conway's Etch A Sketch - A digital Etch A Sketch that runs Conway's Game of Life on your drawings. Draw with the knobs, shake to clear.
Dirty Fingerprints Screensaver - An interactive screensaver that generates fingerprints at the position of mouseclicks on collaborating internet site.
Human Synthesizer - A bio-digital instrument. Your body geometry is scanned in real-time and converted into a raw audio waveform. You are the oscillator.
L-System Flora - An evolutionary ecosystem of procedurally generated plants using L-systems. Digital flora grows, flowers, pollinates, and evolves over time.
QWERTY Keyboard Installation - Digital communication group chat consisting of a computer connected to 101 keys distributed throughout a building via 700 meters of wire.
RL-GA Convergence: The Westerdale Identity - Interactive demonstration showing that Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Algorithms converge to the same probability distribution when using time-symmetric value
Theorem 1 Visualization - Visualization exploring state transitions, probabilities, and path optimization through dynamic graph rendering.