Joel Castro
I'm a rising fourth-year at UC Berkeley, majoring in computer science. My passions and interests lie in the realm of computer graphics, robotics, computer vision, simulations, and in particular, the overlap these arenas have with animation, film, video games, and AR/VR.
- From: San Diego, CA
- Age: 20
- Pronouns: He/Him/His
- Cat dad of: Milo, Mitchu, and Sol
Research & Publications
Understanding Program Visualizations in the Wild
Authors: Joel E. Castro Hernandez, Olohi Goodness John
Venue: SPLASH, 2024
Status: Published
Visualizations play a significant role in writing, debugging, profiling, and generally understanding programs. However, little work has been done to understand the structure of program visualizations at a fundamental level— namely, why and how they scale. In this paper we present a theory of the interpretability of program visualizations focused on their abstraction and composition properties.
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ANova Space Adventure
Processing, Java, Arduino
Sphere & Physics
Minecract Fabric Mod, Java
Cloth Simulator
C++
Path Tracer
C++
Mesh Editor
C++
Rasterizer
C++
Sockrates: Color sorting/folding clothing
ROS, Python (OpenCV), Sawyer (industrial robot arm)
Four Birds
Maya, After Effects, Animated Short
Projection-Based Rendering
Processing, Java
Portal Spoof
Unreal Engine 5
Spotify to Mp3
YouTube API, Spotify API, Python
Reefer
LA Hacks, Coral Health ML Classifier, Gemini API, Python (Reflex), Bash
Rototo's Escape
Unity, JavaScript
Picture Pathway
TreeHacks (Winner), Dall-E API, JavaScript
Saucy Car
Maya, After Effects, Animated short
"Essay": An Atom Egoyan "Calendar" Spoof
Premiere Pro, Narrative Short Film
Fulfilling Measure B
Premiere Pro, Documentary Short Film