Paul Houx
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarPaul Houx is a senior creative technologist with over 30 years of programming experience and a 20-year track record designing award-winning games and museum exhibitions. Currently at Downstream Amsterdam, he builds high-tech presentations and visualizations for digital signage clients such as HP and Zoom, blending real-time graphics, systems engineering, and interaction design. His past work ranges from AAA game engine development for studios like Square Enix to creative ad- and media-tech at The Barbarian Group, and freelance projects for Google, Facebook, and Samsung. A long-time contributor to the Cinder creative coding framework, he has improved camera systems and added geometry utilities that benefit C++ graphics practitioners. He brings deep practical expertise in C++, OpenGL/GLSL, lighting, culling and multitouch interfaces, and often bridges artistic concept with low-level performance engineering. Notably, his graphics research has appeared alongside industry leaders (e.g., in GPU Pro 7), underscoring a rare mix of production polish and technical authorship.
14 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
3d-graphics10
cinder10
loops10
cprogramming-language10
geometry9
batchfile9
windows9
linear-algebra9
cmd9
opengl8
curve6
boost6
computational-geometry6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cinder/Cinder
Jul 2018 - Nov 2021
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 97 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the `Camera` classes within the cinder library. Their work involved refactoring and optimizing the `getClipCoordinates` method, reducing code duplication in the `CameraStereo` class, and addressing related issues regarding near-plane calculations. The user's contributions also included implementing convenience constructors for scoped matrix classes. Further, they added a `geom::CubeSphere` class.
cpp
paulhoux/Cinder-Warping
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
A Cinder block that enables you to easily create editable bi-linear and perspective warps, or a combination of the two.
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 10 months
editable
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