Before reading this post I highly recommend reading through Kelly's blog post How to Simulate and Render Blobs As this all follows the work outlined in that post. There was a time in my life when I had the pleasure of working alongside Kelly MacNeill. Kelly is working on a video game called ... Read More

Hello Internet, I have continued work on my raycaster. First I fixed an issue I was seeing where walls towards the edge of the screen were not being drawn tall enough resulting in this odd bubbly look. This was due to me using the distance that wall was from my camera. This seemed ... Read More

Hello Internet, Over the weekend I managed to create a raycasting engine in unity using the new tilemap feature and compute shaders. At the start of my application I convert the tile map into a compute buffer and send it off to a shader that renders the scene into a texture using raycasting. All ... Read More

Hi, My name is Alex Gilbert. I am a math student at UIC. My interests include Creating Visualization of Complex Mathematical Phenomena, Topology, Geometry, Programming, and Game Dev. I almost always have a project I am working on and look forward to Blogging about them all here! Thanks! -Alex ... Read More