Hello, I'm Caden Parker

C/C++ engineer focused on real-time graphics, performance, and systems-level work.

Open-source Contributions

three.js

• mrdoob/three.js#32329 — Add float packing / unpacking intrinsics to TSL
• mrdoob/three.js#32300 — Support struct definitions / declarations in TSL Transpiler
• mrdoob/three.js#32272 — Fix invalid code generation in TSLTranspiler

Projects

3D Cyclic Cellular Automata

A real-time 3D cyclic cellular automata simulation implemented with WebGPU compute shaders

Optimizations

• Uses a (8, 4, 2) 3D workgroup size to maximize cache-coherent reads along the X axis
• Bitpacks cell states to signifcantly reduce overall memory bandwidth
• Assigns multiple cellular automata states to a single GPU thread, improving memory re-use and ALU usage
• Rendered by rasterizing a bounding box and performing per-pixel DDA voxel traversal along the view ray

SIMD Ray Tracer

A brute-force ray tracer, optimized with SIMD and multi-threading

Live Demo: https://simd-ray-tracer.netlify.app/

Key Features

• Compiles to WASM and x64, supporting WebAssembly SIMD, SSE2, and AVX2
• Data is layed out in an array of struct of arrays, ensuring good cache locality and compatibility with SIMD
• Supports matte, specular, and fresnel materials