Hi, I'm Colin

I'm a geometer and physicist by training who writes mostly in C++ and Metal – geometry processing, real-time graphics, and scientific computing. My training: an MS in Computational Physics, and an MS in Mathematics.

Most of what I build sits where math and physics meet:

• Surfaces in Space on the App Store, featuring
  • weak gravitational lensing about a Schwarzschild black hole,
  • a soap bubble evolved by mean curvature flow with volume conservation on the GPU, shaded with Fresnel reflection and thin-film interference,
• LAM, a set of C++23 math libraries, including but not limited to:
  • polynomial algebra at compile time,
  • allocator-aware linear algebra,
  • numerical quadrature in the style of Lebesgue,
• 3D models of Dessins d'Enfants for the purposes of 3D printing and augmented reality, joint work with my friend and mentor Professor Edray Goins of Pomona College, not to mention the many undergrads who've helped him out over the years,
• SIMD-accelerated solvers for neutron star matter. Contact me for more details.

Have a look at projects.

I also founded the Los Angeles Sprawl C++ User Group (quite the mouthful); I've taught math and physics for about a decade; and I get pulled into woodworking and 3D printing more often than I plan to.