Charles Zhang

determiner(X, Prop, Assn, exists(X, Prop and Assn)) --> [a].

(About the quote: It’s a DCG clause from the book “Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence” 4th Edition by Ivan Bratko - in section 23.3 “Defining the meaning of natural language”: “The logical meaning of the tiny determiner ‘a’ may seem surprisingly complicated”. Well, it only makes sense!)

Welcome to my personal website!

I am a software enthusiast (and a professional). Proudly worked at Blackbird Interactive and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Nowadays working for my own tech startup Methodox Technologies, Inc.
I have a long-time secret project that I am still working on😉.

If you are talented or resourceful and looking for inspiration, consult my business ideas.

Feature: Stars Bend Light🌟

[Image] 引力作用下两颗行星的擦肩而过 (Simulation) Paths of planets under the influence of gravitational pull

Main Projects🌉

There are a few things that I’ve always wanted to work on but never had a chance to fully materialize: Airi, MULTITUDE, Deep Dive, Parcel, and Formless. Thankfully, OpenAI invented ChatGPT, I discovered Markdown-based workflow, Expresso replaced Parcel and Pure replaced Formless.

» WIP: Highlights of “Work-in-progress”
» Codename: The Matrix: Galactical scale entity simulation and render engine
» Pure: A C# based scripting environment
» (Archived) Node Editor: 3D first-person walkable node editing environment
» (Archived) SIS MULTITUDE: Experimental windows desktop environment (WPF) and with inspirational agency
» (Archived) Somewhere: Tag-based desktop file/content/note management file system
» (Archived) Parcel: Node-based process automation environment

Project Ideas (Invite for Collaboration)

As mentioned above and as a summary, here are some projects that I am genuinely interested in, and everyone is welcome to collaborate with me. Notice those projects tends to have a non-deteremined production timeline because I cannot spare dedicated time working on them. Also by no means that I will accept collaboration proposal blindly for I don’t have time for casual engagements. At the moment, my entire focus is either on work at OTPP, or Project Nine.

For entrepreneurship level endeavours, see business ideas.

Software

Pure The Language (Work-in-Progress): Github
Parcel The Workflow Engine (Halted): Github
Formless The Language (Deprecated): Github
Somewhere/Somewhere 2 (Deprecated): Website

Higher-Order Experiments

Airi (Halted): Pending detailed write-up

Hardware/Software/Program

(Idea) Motion-tracked 3D environment - looking through a screen. It’s like VR but NOT VR and I assert the feeling is even more amazing. Pending dedicated write-up on my plan using OAK-D-Lite. Can be developed into a machine-learning (computer graphics) project.

Utility Programs

“Lightening” Browser: lightweight zero shit browser with proper bookmark management using tags and backed as a MARKDOWN file.

Games

Deep Dive The Game (Shelved): PENDING MORE DETAILS (Pending visionary write-up).

Longer-Term Projects

Project Nine (Active): PENDING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW.

Contents🐙

Some things are yet to get more serious!😠

» Arts and Illustrations
» Applications (PENDING)
» Articles
» Blogs
» Books (PENDING)
» Galleries
» Moment of Thought
» Photos
» Reviews
» University Design Projects (PENDING)

Animations

Emily & James Pilot: Published under account Emily & James, full video available on OpenSea. First-attempt full CGI animation. Pending dedicated write-up article.

Articles

Misc.:

Blogs

Blogs (随想) are like vlogs or weChat moments - it’s momental, it’s 随想, it’s blumbing, but here we try to be more articulated (on the literature level).

Books

(2016) Think & Miss (Chinese) - Book 1 (Probably needs a better context, e.g. as an introduction article/page)

Concepts

Cool, fully-finished/half-finished/experimental projects.

(PENDING)

Reviews

Movie, novel, software, TV reviews and collections. Include: Experience, ranking, excerpts, collections (vocabulary, literacy, scene, sound, etc.).

We do not use an existing well-known platform like Douban because we want full programmable data control and couldn’t care less being discoverable by others. Those reviews mostly serve personal interest, serving reference and inspirational rambling and thorough review for the purpose of it, and only occassionally share ideas.

Short Film

Romance

Parcel

Tags: Software, Workflow, Business Automation, Data Analytics

Link: Github

Games

Original.

(PENIDNG ADDING Old: Flash, Action Game)

Programs

Small utilities or fun stuff. (Might also share some useful Pure/Python scripts in the future.)

Toy Programs

Multi Fractal Terrain

Software

Functional and specialized.

Resources

Itch.IO

Productivity Tools

Don’t forget to add to PATH😉!

Pure
Launcher
Calculator
Parcel: PENDING

Favorite Articles

As a civilization we build our knowledge based on people before us. This sections contain things not of my original creation, but I think is ground-breaking and worth sharing. Here I post links of to those articles:

Computing:

Toward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers by Herbert Jaeger, Beatriz Noheda & Wilfred G. van der Wiel (PENDING REVIEW ARTICLE)

Procedural Generation:

Cyclic Symmetric Multi-Scale Turing Patterns by Jonathan McCabe, see (2018) Turing Pattern
Minecraft noise generation (PENDING)

Links🔗

🐫Specialty: Redream (Old), Redream (New)

🌐Online Profiles:

LinkedIn: For professional background and career information.
Github: For all open source and personal projects that I work on. This is the most frequently updated place.
ArtStation: Very occassionally when I do get some (digital) art work done, I make sure I post it here.
Steam: Used to play games, not that much these days.
Instgram: Travel photography.
YouTube (Personal): Tech talks, game videos, random projects.
Emily & James: 💕.
Itch.io: Provides downloads of functional programs.

🌌Portal - Organization 9: Reports

🏢Company: Methodox Technologies, Inc.

Changelog📑

2018: Historical website at Wayback Machine.
202208: (#Technical) We used to have a 20Mb payload from Airi - it took a while to make the repo clean. In the future anything this huge should deserve its own repo.
20220820: (Backend) Update and clean up setup; (Content) Add draft blog 20220820.
20220821: (Website) Update front page. (Content) Migrate some articles from old personal portfolio websites.
20220822: (Front Page) Add “Feature” section. (Content) Draft page for “The Matrix” project; Add draft section for “Dev Log”.
20221209: We used to treat the repo as a file host of compiled html files and kept source code seperately. This creates additional buld process and seperated source and result files. The reality is, we really don’t care about the compiled HTMLs ourselves so we should just let Jekyll do its job.
20221210: (Article) Create placeholder for Knowledge Markdown.
20230702: (Appearance) Change theme.
20230801: (Appearance) Update front page; Clean up and visual formatting.
20230823: (Organization) Add section on “Favorite Articles”
20231013: (Feature, Interaction) Integrate Giscus. (Remark) Will stop updating this for trivialities. Viewers are welcome to read commit history for more details.

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