Four client knowledge graphs in five months. Local extraction on my own GPUs, agentic research and writing chains on top, and the eval discipline that's slowly turning it into a repeatable consulting tool.
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Automation / LLM / homelab / harness Claude Code as lead engineer over a crew of specialised agents, running on a GPU rig in the basement. Hub-and-spoke delegation, cost rules enforced by hooks, and an agent whose only job is answering What Would Martin Do.
Research Agent-based modelling and systems research to find out who is better at managing an economic system: an economist, a gamer, or an LLM?
Space / Digital twins A panel at Dell Tech World with the MIT Media Lab crew whose payloads landed near the lunar south pole in March 2025, and how a megabyte from the Moon becomes a gigabyte of terrain.
Generative AI / Virtual production Stable Diffusion running on a live camera feed at 15 frames a second, or as we pitched it on stage, 15 cats per second. TouchDesigner, three kinds of camera, and a LoRA trained on 60,000 selfies.
VR / Live performance A talk on VRChat's grassroots gig scene- full body tracking, decompiled Half-Life stages, and why 75,000 people a day show up to dance as a scientist with a bald head.
Neural rendering / R&D Training a neural radiance field from a phone-quality SFM pointcloud, then figuring out what to do with the volume it gives you back.
A video on what we found looking into how different personalities and demographics interact with a visual field test.
A quick note setting the 2019 VFX reel free after sitting on it too long.
Notes and forum correspondence on the fight to get Renderman For Maya and Alfred talking to Maya properly.
Turning volumetric medical data into Minecraft voxels, because the environments are just a bunch of voxels already.
A system for dynamically mapping video textures onto geometry in Houdini as it starts moving, tracking changing topology through a cloth solver.
A 3-hour cmiVFX training I recorded in 2012 on directing particles with point clouds in Houdini. The site is long gone; the demo reel survived.
A Houdini 10 workflow for smashing a car into an object using the cloth system's plastic deformation.
Getting PRman 14.3 talking to Houdini 10 on OSX 10.5, a combination nobody else had written up at the time.