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Creative Works

Trig Spinner
The idea for Trig Spinner came about while studying Trigonometry functions in my Precalculus class. My teacher instructed us to memorize a chart of sine, cosine, and tangent functions at the degree angles 30, 45, 60, 90, 135, 150, 180, 210, 225, 240, 270, 300, 315, 330, and 360 respectively (48 values total). I found those weird numbers quite difficult to learn without a visual point of reference (i.e. a triangle or the unit circle). The goal of Trig Spinner is to help people memorize these crazy numbers in a visually interesting way. The project also served as a good exercise to introduce myself to Flash's new programming language, ActionScript 3.0. (August 2008)

Fine Arts 101a Drawings

(July 2008)

The Village Gardeners Website
The official website for my neighborhood environmental group, The Village Gardeners. (January 2008)

Grammar Ninja
Grammar Ninja is an educational web game that resulted from my high school Independant Study in Videogame Design. You are a Grammar Ninja who must find parts of speech by throwing ninja stars at words. Correct answers allow you to continue, while wrong answers literally explode. It's great fun. Download the Grammar Ninja Sentence Creator to create your own sentences. (January 2007)

Star Blaster
Star Blaster is a space-themed exploring and shooting game. This massive undertaking took me around 300 hours to design, program, and draw. The end result is good, but not exceptional. I often think about Star Blaster's strengths and shortcomings when I develop new videogames. (October 2006)

Mario Blocks
A club art project I lead, filmed, and edited in high school. The video speaks for itself. (May 2006)