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Welcome to my personal website! I'm Yufeng Zhao, and I'm super cool. I am interested in all things digital, data, and art. This site is my digital playground where I share my projects and thoughts.
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| Project | Description | Tags | Notes | Link | Year |
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| there is only one way | A dataset of NYC's one way signs, redeemable from a scratch card. | ocr, web scraping | Featured in PCMag, WBGO, Small Batch: A Dataset Farmers Market | Access | 2024 |
| all text in nyc | A search engine and visualization tool enabling a digital drift through NYC's textual landscape, from 2007 to 2024. | The entire NYC just became available for querying, as of Dec 8, 2024. | Access | 2024 | |
| MTA Subway Alert Affected Riders | An interactive visualization that maps the relationship between MTA subway service disruptions and ridership patterns from 2022 to 2024. | mta open data, data visualization | Watch | 2024 | |
| diffused·city | A collection, a generator, and a geoguessr of fake panoramas of real cities, imagined by a diffusion model. | image generation, environment building | Work in progress, geoguessr coming soon. | Access | 2024 |
| J Train Simulator | A soundscape and 3d scan of near a J train stop in Brooklyn, NY. Unlike in real life, the simulated train always arrives on time. | gaussian splat, 3d soundscape | Featured in SFPC Summer 2024. | Access | 2024 |
| i can'd laugh | Automatic cue system for canned laughter track when you tell your unfunny jokes, just like in a sitcom | web speech api | Featured in SFPC Summer 2024. | Access | 2024 |
| Bullet Time (Online) | Reverse engineering a gaussian splat reconstruction of 237 frames of the 'bullet time' scene from The Matrix (1999), hosted online. A roundtrip from CGI to film, and back to CGI. | reverse engineering, 3d reconstruction | Still cleaning up the splat reconstruction. | Access | 2024 - present |
| Jing’s Poetic Cartography | An immersive VR experience that re-creates an ancestral recipe for Fen Zheng Rou (Steamed Pork with Rice Flour) alongside oral histories of Jing’s immigration. | volumetric capture, gaussian splat, vr | Featured in Ada X,InterAccess. | Watch | 2024 |
| Filetypes / Airports | An interactive map that maps filetypes to airports when extensions overlap with IATA codes, with authentic thumbnail icons ripped from the original software. | legacy filetypes, IATA codes | Access | 2024 | |
| Banner Depot 2000 | An interactive collection of 22,915 late '90s and early 2000s web ad banners from Chinese and English sites, featuring a poem generator that crafts verses from the banners. | internet history, digital archive, generative literature | Publications: Journal of Open Humanities Data. | Access | 2022 - present |
| Libgen: Raycast Extension | Building a system-wide extension to search and quickly download books from Library Genesis. 6000 installs and counting! | web scraping, raycast extension | Access | 2022 - present | |
| Co-Orb | Fostering remote workplace gratitude by integrating tangible IoT into communications apps. | CHI '22, IoT, User Research, Multi-modal Design, Interaction Design, WoZ Testing | Publications: SIGCHI '22. CHI '22 Design Competition 1st Prize | Watch | 2022 |
| Bod.ily | A card game that normalizes stigmatized topics and taboos around women’s health that prevail across most cultures and societies. | persuasive design, game design | Watch | 2021 | |
| Caches from the Landscape | An exploration of the impacts of Chinese data infrastructure development on local communities and landscapes in Guizhou, through the lens of a visual travelogue. | landscape, infrastructure, collective identity | Publications: Geosyllabus. | Watch | 2021 |
| Emerging Media Institutions Map | An interactive map showcasing emerging media institutions globally, offering users the opportunity to explore and contribute to this evolving landscape. | new media, map | Access | 2021 | |
| Unhinged | A unique perspective on Shanghai's financial district through the window of a scrapped 2006 Brilliance Auto vehicle. | projection mapping, urban transformation | Watch | 2021 | |
| 3A Paper Generator | Exposes academic language as form without content, producing papers that are structurally perfect but semantically void through algorithmic repetition. | generative literature, academic parody | Access | 2021 | |
| Project NoCode 无码计划 | A temporary artist collective formed during COVID-19 in China, creating interventions that probe the intersections of public space, digital surveillance, and pandemic-era social behaviors. | collective, public intervention, digital surveillance, pandemic art, social practice, urban space, speculative design | Featured in Step Back Forward. | Watch | 2020 |
| Digital Cameras: 1994-2020 | An interactive exploration of 4,000 digital cameras across 26 years, revealing the technological shifts that shaped modern photography. | tech history, data narrative, d3.js | Featured in unthinking.photography. | Watch | 2020 |
| TeleWindow | Experimenting with 3D reconstruction and relighting for pointcloud telepresence. | telepresence, graphics, point cloud | 2020 | ||
| Tang Long 唐龙 | An intimate portrait of a middle-aged gay couple's life in suburban Shanghai, exploring love, companionship, and the quiet poetry of everyday moments. | documentary, queer studies | Watch | 2019 | |
| Real-time Fluid Rendering | An experimental exploration of real-time 3D fluid simulation and rendering techniques with TouchDesigner. | touchdesigner, glsl, nvidia flex, particle system, leap motion | Watch | 2019 | |
| Typoly | A browser extension that transforms words into misspellings in your daily web experience. | spellcheck, dataset | Access | 2019 | |
| Imprisoned 囚 | A live audiovisual performance and interactive installation that explores the ambivalent state of self-doubt and reconciliation. | interactive graphics, projection mapping, depth camera | Watch | 2018 | |
| Face Palm | An interactive installation that projects and warp self-perception on your palms. | video mirror, projection mapping | Watch | 2018 | |
| Holo Reader | An augmented-reality app for HoloLens that enhances the book reading experience with e-reader features. | hololens, ar, e-reader | Watch | 2018 | |
| fullmoon | A meditative VR experience that presents a surreal landscape of fullmoon. | virtual reality, ue4, htc vive, cinematic story | Watch | 2018 | |
| Voxel Drip Paint | Drip painting on a virtual canvas with voxel paint blocks at your finger tips. | web 3d, leap motion | Watch | 2018 |
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