Nicolas Barradeau
Artist In Residence At The Google Arts & Culture Lab
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Barradeau is a creative coder and Artist in Residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab with 11 years of experience blending web-native technologies, WebGL, and generative AI to create interactive museum experiments, dataviz and playful edutainment. Based in Paris, he partners with artists and cultural institutions to prototype novel uses of in-house ML and GenAI models (T2T, T2I, I2I, VLM, etc.) and translate collections into engaging online experiences. His background ranges from Flash-era multimedia to leading R&D for major brands and a decade as a freelance WebGL specialist, giving him a rare mix of artistic training (DNSEP Fine Arts) and production-grade engineering. An active contributor to The Book of Shaders project, he improves shader-driven learning and UX—showing a persistent focus on visual pedagogy as well as polished social sharing via metadata improvements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DNSEP Fine Arts, DNSEP Fine Arts at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
textbook10
shader10
storybook10
css10
user-manual10
glsl10
docbook10
fragment-shader10
actionscript9
html8
javascript8
game-physics6
optimization6
flash6
apache-flex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
patriciogonzalezvivo/thebookofshaders
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 17 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the project by updating and enhancing the visual aspects of the "The Book of Shaders." Their work included modifying the CSS for gallery layouts, adding image captions, and refining the user interface elements. Furthermore, the user added new chapters and updated existing ones, demonstrating a focus on content and structure organization. They also modified the `header.php` file to include Open Graph and Twitter card metadata, improving the site's social media presentation.
universefragmentglsl-sandboxshadersglsl-shader
nicoptere/raymarching-for-THREE
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 65 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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