Course Projects

I enjoy dabbling in computer science special topics like game engines, graphics, and artificial intelligence. Below are a few examples of projects from special topic computer science courses.

Artificial Intelligence

Simulated annealing agent uses the simulated annealing algorithm to decide between choosing a better or worse state given a simulated temperature, which decreases over time, such that local maximums are disregarded for higher local maximums or the global maximum(s).

A* pathfinding agent uses the A* pathfinding algorithm to traverse two dimensional spaces optimally given a target position. I tinkered with the A* pathfinding package in Unity earlier on in college with a game development project before being introduced to this algorithm.

Connect four agent uses the min-max algorithm with alpha beta pruning in order to efficiently assess what a next good move would be given the opponent chooses a move that will be good for them. This algorithm was one of my favorite and I think it would be interesting to implement an agent to play through a RPG like Baldur's Gate 3 using a similar algorithm.

Chips Challenge agent uses A* pathfinding algorithm to dynamically assess which path is best in order to collect all the chips whist not being limited by any key-door combination.

Game Engines

I independently implemented a flexible, networked game engine in the game engines computer science course in the game development concentration. This involved creating server client architecture to support multiplayer using ZeroMQ Pub/Sub and Req/Rep sockets and rendering figures via the SFML library. This project bolstered my existing understanding of game engines as well as familiarity working on large C# projects. One regret I have from this project is that I was learning C during this and this was my first C++ project so I wasn't able to use the best programming conventions.

Graphics

Using WebGL and JavaScript, I rendered images and colors in modular and replace modes via rasterization. Topics like triangle strip compression were interesting and potentially very useful in my research.

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