AMY LIU

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Houdini Ruins Terrain Toolset

June 2025 - July 2025

PERSONAL · INDIVIDUAL

A toolset for creating procedural ruined terrains and associated assets in Houdini.

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Parents in the Loop

June 2025 - June 2025

PERSONAL · GROUP

2nd Place and Popular Choice winner at Hack4Impact NYC 2025. An AI-powered interface for school systems to bridge knowledge and language barriers for immigrant parents.

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PAPAYA - USD Asset Browser

March 2025 - April 2025

PERSONAL · GROUP

A Django, MySQL, and Amazon S3-backed web database, search engine, and DCC connector for OpenUSD 3D assets.

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NeRFs in OpenUSD

January 2025 - May 2025

PERSONAL · INDIVIDUAL

A comprehensive interface to solve data collection for Neural Radiance Fields and Novel View Synthesis for the Pixar OpenUSD framework.

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GLSL Pathtracer

January 2025 - March 2025

SCHOOL · INDIVIDUAL

A GLSL-based application to showcase different rendering methods associated with the Monte Carlo Light Transport algorithm.

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NVIDIA Omniverse ComfyUI Connector

October 2024 - December 2024

INTERNSHIP · INDIVIDUAL

A plugin for the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to support a ComfyUI workflow directly within the viewport.

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MayaRubiks

December 2023 - January 2024

PERSONAL · INDIVIDUAL

A Maya plug-in to procedurally solve a Rubik's Cube using the Kociemba algorithm within the 3D viewport.

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MoBi-LE

May 2023 - August 2023

RESEARCH · INDIVIDUAL

A study on human-computer interaction through a 3D-printed robot "companion" for grade school children.

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Mini Minecraft in C++

March 2023 - May 2023

SCHOOL · GROUP

A simple C++ program to emulate the 3D entity interactivity and world exploration themes of Minecraft.

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Mini Maya

March 2023 - March 2023

SCHOOL · INDIVIDUAL

A mesh-editor GUI that performs Catmull-Clark subdivision on input OBJ files, binds model skeletons for transformation, and exports out to USD.

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GLSL Simple Shaders

February 2023 - March 2023

SCHOOL · INDIVIDUAL

A collection of surface and post-process shaders to demonstrate GLSL best practices and common CG toolbox functions.

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Synthetic Face Generation

May 2022 - August 2022

RESEARCH · INDIVIDUAL

A National Science Foundation-funded research project to procedurally generate a dataset of photo-realistic virtual human faces.

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3D Reconstruction of Sopoćani Monastery

January 2022 - December 2022

RESEARCH · GROUP

An important collaboration between digitalization and art history -- using modern computer shading and rendering techniques to reconstruct lost artifacts and murals of Medieval Serbia.

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Spotify Composite

December 2021 - January 2022

PERSONAL · INDIVIDUAL

Easily blend Spotify playlists through the Spotify Developer's API using this React-based web application.

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Chess in Java

November 2021 - December 2021

SCHOOL · INDIVIDUAL

A simple chess application with state-saving and move-hints / limitations.