Releases | Joris Paret

New major release of partycls (2.0.0)

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A new major release of partycls (v2.0.0) is now available on GitHub and PyPI. The new homepage also features new tutorials and a more consistent documentation, with a more detailed API presentation and cross-references between the different pages.

The most important changes include:

A variety of new structural descriptors and features (e.g. Voronoi tessellation).
A global optimization for most computations.
Several bug fixes.

See the changelog for more details on this new version.

First official release of hamoco

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

hamoco (handy mouse controller) allows you to take control of your mouse by using hand gestures that are captured in real time by your webcam. It relies on MediaPipe to track hands, and the nature of the different hand poses are predicted by a small neural network built with TensorFlow. Basically, I thought that it might be fun to try and replicate the famous scene from the movie Minority Report (spoiler: it’s cooler when Tom Cruise does it).

You can perform all the basic mouse actions: motion, left/right click, vertical scrolling and drag & drop. There are many options to adjust the experience to your liking (e.g. sensitivity, motion smoothing) and even an automated pipeline to record your own data and train a custom neural network tailored to your needs.

The code is now available on PyPI in version 1.0.1, and you can also check out the page of the project on GitHub.

Synth Road is now available on Android

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Synth Road is an arcade mobile game with synthwave vibes created using the Unity game engine. The goal is to go as far as possible on the road by avoiding the obstacles, and by using powers to help you do so. You can then publish your highscores on the leaderboard to compare your results with other players. The game is free to download on Google Play, and it contains a single optional advertisement whose generated money (if any) will be given to humanitarian NGOs.

This game is the logical consequence of two things:

My obsession for the indie game Outer Wilds, created by the geniuses at Mobius Digital Games, which was also created with Unity.
The amazing YouTube channel of Sebastian Lague, where he creates various Unity projects and explains them in the most pedagogical, poetic and relaxing way.

These two things motivated me to experiment with Unity, and after a few weeks I wanted to prove to myself that I could create an entire project on my own from scratch. The most common mistake among amateur game developers is to directly start with unreasonably big projects, so I tried to keep it simple and came up with this mobile game. This was an opportunity to have a first look at various aspects of game design (gameplay, VFX, SFX, UI, etc.) and to learn more about the countless features of Unity. The game mechanics and visuals are simple, but for a first try I am pretty satisfied with the result, and I hope that I will have more time in the future for more elaborate projects.

The code and all the game assets are available on the GitHub page of the project.