A software developer who enjoys rendering pixels on a computer screen. Currently dabbling in Vulkan and DirectX 12.

Projects

Research

I also spent quite a bit of time in graduate school, where I worked on 2D computer graphics and published several papers.

• Deformation-Driven Element Packing
  RA Saputra
  PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo
  2020

• AnimationPak: Packing Elements with Scripted Animations
  RA Saputra, CS Kaplan, P Asente
  Graphics Interface Conference
  2020

• Computerized Generation of Ornamental Designs by Placing Instances of Simple Shapes in Accordance with a Direction Guide
  P Asente, CS Kaplan, R Měch, RA Saputra
  US Patent 10559061
  2020

• Improved Deformation-Driven Element Packing with RepulsionPak
  RA Saputra, CS Kaplan, P Asente
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  2019

• RepulsionPak: Deformation-Driven Element Packing with Repulsion Forces
  RA Saputra, CS Kaplan, P Asente
  Graphics Interface Conference (Best Paper Award)
  2018

• FLOWPAK: Flow-based Ornamental Element Packing
  RA Saputra, CS Kaplan, P Asente, R Měch
  Graphics Interface Conference (Best Paper Award)
  2017