For fusion week in 2024, fusion trading cards were handed out and I ended up being the artist for 3 of them. Trading cardsThe three cards that I made: C2W, Laser Megajoule, and LAPD. I really enjoyed making these because I was able to play around with some different art styles also while contributing to something that I care about. ...

Earlier this month, I camped in Anza Borrego for a night with my friend Matt to try out some astrophotography. The camping itself went alright – it was cold, which I expected, but I did not think about how cold the ground was going to be when trying to sleep (didn’t bring a mat like a smart person). I took about 700 pictures, each with a 5 second exposure, of the orion nebula with a camera that Matt let me borrow. I used Siril for post-processing, where I essentially followed this guide. I had trouble with the photometric color calibration step (kept on getting an error about plate solving) so I did the manual color calibration instead. This is the result: ...

I wanted look more into Julia because it sounded like python but faster and better. So, I compared Julia to Python, and also threw C++ in there (do I regret that? Maybe)

I wanted to look into the intersection between graphic design and code. I found a program called Processing, where you can code in Java, C++ or Python. After trying a few simple things, this animation seemed to be pretty cool: There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. The code for it is below. There are two functions that automatically run, setup() (runs once like __init__) and draw() (continuously runs). So I just continuously increased the radius at which that ellipse is at, as well as it’s angle with a couple sines and cosines to make it dynamic. ...

This event took place between Oct 16th and Oct 21st in Washington and was the first APS conference I have attended. I ended up really liking the location. Spokane is a medium sized city, but had the energy of a small town, which I enjoyed quite a bit. They even had a good book shop :) It was an amazing experience because it basically took every single subfield of plasma and formed it into a convention of great people displaying their work. It exposed me to a lot of new topics like dusty plasmas or runaway electrons, as well as deepened my interest for other areas like computational plasma. But I think I could work on talking and introducing myself to people at posters. ...