Independent Projects

This page describes a few select projects carried out in collaboration with others.

Great Ant

A whole new way of browsing user generated image collections. This was motivated by work by Microsoft Research on Deep zoom. (GreatAnt was developed in collaboration with Ashwin Seshadri.)

GTA Remake

Grand Theft Auto - Worked on remaking a popular computer game (GTA 1). Developed a 3D graphics engine to load up a huge texturized cityscape to acheive smooth world panning by texture caching, and to acheive sprite animations of autonomous agents to interact with the player. Developed models for vehicle mechanics, and collisions. Tried to develop control schemes for car chases (Control in computer games!) Developed a mission scripting engine that could run multiple scripts in parallel.

3D MoCap

Developed a end-to-end full-body exo-skeleton based motion capture system. Sensors, interface electronics and software were custom developed to capture motion data and animate a biped in real-time. The data could be recorded and deployed to animate any graphic model of a biped.