Elliot Patterson

UB Hackathon

This project was created for UB hackathon 2021.

ChanceMe AI takes in all key indicators of your academic performance as well as the colleges you are interested in applying to, and produces a realistic result of your likelihood of acceptance. More precisely, it takes in numerical scores and analyzes the r/chanceme subreddit to judge the appeal of your extracurricular activities. It processes this data and returns a final percentage score of your likelihood of acceptance. Rating extracurricular activities is possible through a natural language processing model that computes a numerical sentiment value for a particular phrase.

Genetic Evolution of a Species

This program simulates the process of natural selection in a simplified environment. Agents compete against each other for food in order to survive and reproduce. They can mutate and evolve their speed, turning strength, and view range in order to adapt. The simulation demonstrates that over time, in a competitive environment, the overall fitness of the agents increases.

WIP Javascript Physics Engine

This is a WIP physics engine writen in javascript to be used in future projects.

Blackjack

This is a super simple javascript implementation of blackjack, the playing card gambling game.

Complex Evolution Simulation

A more complex simulation of evolution. In this simulation, agents are made of different structural parts that determine the function of the agents. The agents compete against each other in a battle royale-esque arena where the victors are used for reproduction (similar to a genetic algorithm). The DNA sequences of the bots determine their structure (similar to how amino acid sequences determine protein structure) and are crossed over/mutated during reproduction to allow the gradual evolution of the bots over time.

Marching Squares Perlin Noise Map 2D

This project is a 2D map rendered with the Marching Squares Algorithm. It uses a 2D noise map and flood-fill algorithms to create caverns.

Viral Spread in a Metropolitan Area

An extremely simplified simulation of how a virus could spread in a metropolitan area. Agents follow a day-night cycle schedule and roam from location to location during the day before returning home. The program graphs the spread of the virus over time to see how different factors such as infectivity or fatality affect the spread. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Marching Squares Terrain

A 2D endless terrain map using Marching Squares and 1D perlin noise.

Voronoi Diagram Generator

A visualization of Voronoi diagrams in different metric spaces. The program calculates the distance of a pixel to each of the nodes making up the Voronoi diagram using a chosen distance metric. Euclidean distance is the direct length of a line segment between two points. Manhattan distance is the sum of the absolute difference of the cartesian coordinates of two points. Minkowski distance is the distance between two points in the normed vector space.

Maze

A procedural maze generator.

Simplex Noise Shader

An animated visualization of simplex noise in 1D and 2D.