About Me
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Mathematics
When math books start to get interesting they often list mathematical maturity as a prerequisite for understanding the book. As I started my undergrad at UNAM, many times I fooled myself into thinking that I possessed such maturity.
It was thanks to many great professors and their incredibly deep understanding of graphs, topology, algebra and analysis that I realized how wrong my assessment was.
People use to say that being an expert on a topic doesn't mean you are good at teaching it. Albeit true in most cases, each and every one of my professors is a counter-example to that claim. They all serve as my greatest inspiration and I keep their lectures in mind every time I try to explain something.
My mathematical interests change with the weather, and I enjoy discovering a new object each day. At the moment, I'm very interested in Computational Conformal Geometry and Discrete Differential Geometry. It is extremely intriguing to find Teichmüller Shape Space and Computer Vision in the same sentence.
Computers
It was always my autism and Blender against the family's beat up HP Pavilion. I don't remember how I learned to use Blender, but I do remember the computer caught fire once. They say it was my fault. I'm not sure it was not my fault. I miss the good old days.
Getting cracked software was always super entertaining (or so I've been told). You open up the keygen and funky music starts blasting. Most of the time things didn't work out. The cool software only had support for 64-bit architecture and my computer was running 32-bit Vista.
But on one sunny day the gods were good to me, the torrent had detailed instructions, the patch worked and after rebooting there it was: Ableton 8 Suite, unlimited tracks, export enabled and the full sound library.
VST plugins were the first rabbit hole I fell into. There was Ozone 5, Guitar Rig 5, Absynth, Nexus 2. Obviously I was not paying attention in school:
- I have ADHD.
- Those plugins were freaking entertaining.
Fast forward many years and computers later, I fell in love with compilers and graphics. In my free time I work on Frobenoid, a project that allows me to pursue all of my interests. My goal is to eventually spend all my time on this project.
Art
I like to create. When I have a lot of free time I grab any tool that seems fun and create something with it. Below you can see some of my work.
