Volumetric rendering
Layered atmosphere, cloud lighting, self-shadowing, fog, and light transport experiments.
Programmer · Technical creator
I make engines do things they weren’t built to do.
Real-time graphics, simulation, physics, procedural tools, and experimental software—built by taking systems apart and finding a way through.
01 Graphics R&D
02 Simulation
03 Engine experiments
Real-time graphicsSimulationEngine systemsProcedural toolsPhysicsAudio synthesis
Featured systems
Experiments with
real technical weight.
Graphics, simulation, audio, and engine projects organized around what was difficult—not around which language happened to be used.
Technical range
The interesting part
is making it real.
I learn systems by building ambitious things inside them—then keep digging until the result is usable, fast, and shippable.
Runtime generation
Geometry, assets, and world state assembled while the engine is running.
Physics systems
Interactive materials, vehicle coupling, simulation prototypes, and physical tools.
Shader development
Post-processing, voxelization, projections, stylization, lighting, and screen-space effects.
Engine integration
Working around constraints, finding unconventional extension points, and wiring systems together.
Performance work
Designing ambitious real-time effects around a strict frame-time budget.
Tool development
Purpose-built controls, technical workflows, presets, and reusable systems.
Audio synthesis
Procedural approaches to generating responsive synthetic engine sound.
Public contributed projects
Work built
with other teams.
These credits were part of the original portfolio and remain here as first-class work: public contributions across C#, C++, and art.
Released projects
Things I shipped.
Small games and experiments that made it out of the lab and into players’ hands.
Prototype archive / 15 videos
The trail of
working experiments.
Threaded voxels, cloth, buoyancy, sand, audio, procedural terrain, games, and tools. These are not polished case studies; they are evidence of ideas made tangible.
3D work / original gallery
Built in code.
Shaped in 3D.
The original modeling gallery, restored as a visual archive rather than reduced to a footnote.
Certificate archive
Formal proof.
Informal education.
One certificate, alongside years of self-directed learning through shipped work, engine experiments, and difficult prototypes.
About
Curiosity first.
Documentation second.
Working system third.
I’m a self-taught programmer and technical creator. I learn by choosing projects that are slightly unreasonable, taking systems apart, and staying with the problem until something tangible exists.
The result is a body of work spanning graphics research, engine experimentation, simulation, modding, procedural tools, games, and shipped software.
Have a difficult system?
Let’s build the part
that sounds impossible.
I’m interested in game and engine development, graphics programming, simulation, technical tooling, contract work, and technically minded collaborations.
programmerrathey@gmail.com