Anders Steen

ATTACK!

2021-11-08

In the course DH2413 Advanced Graphics and Interaction at KTH, the first project that I worked on was this game project. It's an auto-chess style game where characters are spawned by placing the corresponding playing card on a screen table that has Microsoft PixelSense.

The name is an acronym for Augmented Table Top Auto Chess Kingdom.

The project was made in a team of five people, and my responsibilities were 3D modeling and animation, as well as creating the computer vision algorithms and data pipeline from the PixelSense to the Unity application.

There and Back Again: a LotR visualization

2021-03-19

As part of the course DH2321 Information Visualization at KTH, I was part of a team with four other people, and we created this visualization. It shows the paths that the major characters of the Lord of the Rings trilogy take through the story, on a large interactive map.

My responsibility were prototyping in D3, creating the paths and creating promotional graphics.

Breakr

2021-02-25

I got tired of setting timers to know when to take breaks from work and study, so I solved the problem by creating the app called Breakr and released it on Google Play. I learned Android Studio rudimentally, and coded in Kotlin for the first time, and I'm pretty happy with the resulting app!

YouTube Recommendation Decliner

2020-12-14

I know that I and probably many others have problems with putting YouTube down and not click on the next recommended video endlessly. Therefore, I created the Chrome extension YouTube Recommendation Decliner to automatically decline all recommended videos on YouTube. This is the first time I have dabbled in Chrome extensions, and it taught me a lot about how browsers work, and releasing on a new platform is always highly educational.

CorSA: Correct-by-design and Socially Acceptable Autonomy project

2020-08-06

CorSA is a research project that is funded by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). I was hired as a research engineer to create a human-robot interaction simulation that is essentially a game of chicken between the human agent and a robot. I was also tasked with making the simulation accessible via Amazon Mechanical Turk, and for collecting the experiment data.

A demo of the final version of the simulation (where no data is collected) is available here.

River simulation using metaballs

2020-05-23

A project I did on my own in Unity as part of the course DH2323 Computer Graphics and Interaction. The goal was to explore the possibility of using metaballs to create a river simulation. During the course of the project a project blog was continually updated. The blog now contains the entire project progress history. The project's final result is available on the blog, and the final demo is also embedded below. The project report that was written after the implementation was complete is available here.

Faeria Eye Tracking Plugin

2019-06-12

This project was made by a group of eight people including me in the course DD1393 Software Engineering in collaboration with a company called Tobii. The project was about developing a plugin for the virtual card game Faeria, which is developed using Unity, so that it could be played using your eyes when using one of Tobii's eye trackers. The project was nearly fully completed, but it was not possible to publish the plugin, despite the great majority of the project's goals being reached, and nearly all aspect of the game being playable using just your eyes. The main concepts of the plugin are shown in the video demo below, where everything that happens is controlled using an eye tracker.

Golf course simulation

2019-03-15

A project in Unity with the goal of creating a physical simulation of a golf course, as part of the course DD1354 Models and Simulation. I was one of the two people working on the project together. The project also has a blog which was updated continually during the course of the project.

This link leads to a demonstration of the project's final results.

Dice Control

2022-08-04

For the GMTK 2022 game jam, my brother and I made this puzzle platformer. The competition was tough this year, with 6147 games submitted, and we ended up in 145th place. We were really happy with how the game turned out, so it's a shame it didn't land in the top 100 this year.

My brother gets credit for the level design and most of the art and audio, while I wrote the code. The mechanics and visual style was developed in tandem.

The game's itch.io site contains an online version of the game and a download link for a Windows build of the game.

Congalong

2021-06-13

This game was made by me and my brother using Unity, as part of the GMTK 2021 game jam. It ended up in 56th place out of 5766 entries, meaning the top one percent! All the top 100 games of the jam are considered "winners", so I'm very excited about having created this game.

This game was made by me and my brother using Unity, as part of the GMTK 2021 game jam. It ended up in 56th place out of 5766 entries, meaning the top one percent! All the top 100 games of the jam are considered "winners", so I'm very excited about having created this game.

I did all the coding and some of the sound design, while my brother designed and created the art. We collaborated on the game design.

The game's itch.io site contains an online version of the game and a download link for a Windows build of the game.

Maldimensional

2020-07-12

An "out-of-control" platforming game I made in Unity with my brother for the Game Maker Toolkit's 2020 Game Jam.

The game's itch.io site hosts a WebGL build of the game as submitted to the jam.

One Dim Dash

2018-08-19

A game project I took on on my own during the summer of 2018. It is an experimental game taking place in a single dimension, with the main mechanics of the game being centered on fast player reflexes. The game is complete, with the full version being available on Windows, Linux and Android.

The game's website contains download links for the computer versions and a link to the game's page on Google Play.

Donut of 2021

2021-04-23

This was my submission for Blender Guru Andrew Price's render challenge, where I remade the first render I ever made by following his tutorial.

Crystal Cave

2021-01-08

I made this, inspired by a blender tutorial for making procedural crystals by CGMatter.

Sink nightmare

2020-03-26

This render is actually based on a nightmare I had as a small child, where I was extremely tiny and in a sink. This took a while to complete, probably mostly because it was my first attempt at modeling complete humans. I think it went okay, but I need a lot of improvement.

Sandman

2020-01-27

I wanted to try modeling a head as practice. Halfway done, inspiration struck me and I knew what I wanted to do with the head. This was the result, and I'm actually pretty proud of it.

Tomato kitchen

2019-11-16

This kitchen interior archviz render started as an exercise proposed by CG Cookie in a video. I wanted to challenge myself further and complete the render when I was done with the modeling exercise, and this is the result. Took about 20 hours to render. The denoiser I usually use thought the holes in the grater was all noise, so I had to use 40960 samples instead.

Master's thesis: Realism of Procedural Lichens on Horizontal Stone Surfaces

2022-08-04

The Master's thesis is the final part of my studies at KTH, and was done in collaboration with Resolution Games. My KTH supervisor was Christopher Peters and my Resolution Games supervisor was Henrique Furtado.

This link leads to the document as a pdf.

The subject of the thesis is the evaluation of the realism of lichens generated procedurally on stone surfaces in a virtual environment. The major focus of the thesis was a user study collecting data on participants' perceived realism of images of generated lichens with different parameter settings.

Formalizing Trajectories in Human-Robot Encounters via Probabilistic STL Inference

2021-09-27

A paper written as part of the CorSA: Correct-by-design and Socially Acceptable Autonomy, published in IROS 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

The paper is available here.

Handles the trajectories of human and robot agents in a context where humans and robots navigate a shared space. My contribution was to create the simulation in Unity that generated all of the data, which forms the foundation for the study.

Should Robots Chicken? How Anthropomorphism and Perceived Autonomy Influence Trajectories in a Game-Theoretic Problem

2021-01-08

A paper written as part of the CorSA: Correct-by-design and Socially Acceptable Autonomy, published in HRI '21, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

The paper is available here.

The subject of human-robot interaction in the context of the game of chicken is explored in the paper. My contribution was to create the simulation in Unity that generated all of the data, which forms the foundation for the study.

Bachelor's thesis: Evaluating the utility of a contract compositionality proof framework

2020-09-08

My thesis partner was Anton Lövström and our supervisor was Dilian Gurov.

The thesis was written with KTH and published on KTH's publication database DiVA. This link leads to the document as a pdf.

The subject of the thesis is the evaluation of a framework for proving the correctness of compositions in system-level contracts. The framework was developed earlier by Mattias Nyberg, Jonas Westman and Dilian Gurov.