Chris Laurel
Data Refiner
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Laurel is a seasoned software developer with 25 years of experience specializing in interactive 3D graphics, notable as the creator of Celestia, a widely used open-source astronomical and spaceflight visualization application. He brings deep systems and graphics expertise from roles at Microsoft and NVIDIA, where he worked on DirectX and GPU drivers, alongside early work building a Java VRML browser and a custom software 3D engine. Based in Seattle, he now applies that low-level graphics and simulation background to data refinement at Lumon Industries while co-founding Fifth Star Labs to build educational iOS software. Comfortable across C++, Java, OpenGL and Direct3D, he combines academic grounding in math and physics with a practical history of shipping cross-platform visualization and driver-level code. An unexpected thread through his career is a persistent focus on making complex spatial data accessible and interactive, from engines and drivers to end-user educational tools.
25 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, Physics, BA, Mathematics, Physics at St. Olaf College
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Github Skills (28)
cmark8
openframeworks8
encoder7
parsing7
compression6
macos6
image-compression6
texture6
iphone6
cocoa6
data-format6
objective-c6
ios6
qt6
astc6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
claurel/cosmographia
Nov 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Alexell/Celestia
Feb 2001 - Feb 2012
Contributions:2749 commits in 11 years 1 month
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