Projects
Fun things I'm building as a creative technologist.
synapse 2026–
A suite of browser tools for visualizing the senses in combination — sound into image, image into sound, touch into light. Each hands you the mapping itself, so you compose your own cross-sensory language.
play with it — live, in this page
an output
the tools
- touch live Conduct a glowing particle field with your cursor or your hands — on-device webcam, nothing uploaded.
- sight live Stack masked effect layers on any image, keyframe every parameter on a timeline, export video or a frame sequence.
- sound live Dissect audio into FFT spectrum, beats and bands, then bind any sound feature to any visual property.
- tune live Split an image into zones that each pick an instrument from their colour and texture, then perform the picture.
- the idea Every tool ships research-grounded defaults — then exposes the mapping as something you can rewrite, so the synesthesia is yours.
framegen 2026–
A story-first, generative-AI film pipeline. You write the brief — character, setting, script, mood, camera — lay your film out as a sequence of moments, and block exactly who's in each shot. FrameGen carries that blocking through design, 3D, lighting and compositing into finished cinematic frames. Runs locally over Blender, ComfyUI and a local LLM.
an output
the workbench
how it works
- story-first A brief — character, setting, script / play-by-play, mood and camera — drives every stage. Lay your film out as a sequence of moments; each becomes a shot.
- block the shot Place figures and the camera in a 3D blockout and lock an exact head-count — the render gives you those figures, in that arrangement, every time.
- design & direct Choose a film style and shot type — wide, close, over-shoulder, dutch — with pose and depth references; DWPose and ControlNet hold the composition.
- staged pipeline Story → layout → design → detail → 3D form → surface → lighting → compositing → final look → sequence. Lock a stage you like; only what's downstream re-renders.
- local & open Runs on your own machine over Blender, ComfyUI and a local LLM — no cloud, no per-render bill.
runs locally — not publicly hosted yet.