potted_plantPiranha Plants as Charade Music generation in the style of “Piranha Plants on Parade” from Super Mario Bros. Wonder. I made this project with Emily Yu, and we applied techniques across many disciplines, including digital signal processing, hidden Markov models, and Western music theory.
pet_suppliesFunnyBone Search Engine A search engine that finds the funniest phrases related to a given prompt. According to an NLP research paper, some aspects of humour may follow linear patterns, so I used linear regression to identify such patterns in single-word humour. I originally created this project as a part of OneLook Thesaurus, a creative writing tool with tens of thousands of daily visitors.
tacticMaze Notepad A web app that lets users quickly and easily create, solve, and share mazes. I used Kruskal's MST algorithm, among others, to procedurally generate fully-customizable layouts. This way, Maze Notepad removes the tedious aspects of maze-making, letting users focus on their creative ideas.