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Shadi El Hajj

@refractionlabs

Refraction Labs is the alter ego of Shadi El Hajj, an Algorithmic and Data-Driven Artist based in London.

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Highlights from my work on the Road Safety Dataviz. Illustrating how big data can help reduce accidents in London. All visuals are generated from code with #threejs based on a dataset of 40 million data points, 100 dimensions each. #dataviz #bigdata #datascience #webgl

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Exploring the concept of growth, using particles and a custom trails shader in  #threejs. #generativeart #creativecoding #codeart #particles #webgl

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From a series of City Data Portraits I created at Signal Noise, with Three.js (Deprecated), as part of #expo2020. The dataviz illustrates how major cities are responding to #digitalization along 3 axes: opportunity, mobility & sustainability. #dataviz #datascience #threejs #webgl

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Highlight from The Archetypes, my Generative Art project inspired by archetypal symbols. The idea being to animate particles using physics formulas, and let emergent behaviour suggest these images. Made with Unity3D (inactive) compute shaders. #madewithunity #unity3d #creativecoding

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I've written a deep dive into how I generatively designed 10,000 Asteroid NFTs, as part of my work with the immensely talented team at Cauldron. Read it here: lnkd.in/eMUhZXbA #generativedesign #generativeart #houdini #madewithunity #nft

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“Avalanche”, from my upcoming series “Topography of Cognition”. Each element is procedurally generated in Unreal Engine using Niagara and bespoke shaders. #VFX #techart #procedural #UnrealEngine5

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We just rolled out multiple raymarched PBR materials support to lygia ! Expect more exciting upgrades to the raymarching subsystem in the coming weeks, such as volumetric fog.

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Putting the finishing touches on a massive overhaul of lygia 's PBR pipeline. One step closer to production-grade real-time rendering in Lygia!

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Dear friends, I need your help! I have submitted to speak at SXSW London and public voting is now open! If you’d like to hear me speak at the event please vote for my proposal here lnkd.in/eE7dRrvv Registration on the SXSW website is required but very straightforward

Dear friends, I need your help!

I have submitted to speak at SXSW London and public voting is now open!  

If you’d like to hear me speak at the event please vote for my proposal here lnkd.in/eE7dRrvv 

Registration on the SXSW website is required but very straightforward
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Only a few days remain until the SXSW voting deadline! If you’d like to hear me speak at SXSW London 2025, please consider voting for my submission “Visualizing the Unseen: Algorithms, Generative AI, and the Collective Unconscious”. 👉 Vote here: applyto.sxswlondon.com/entry/vote/lZA…

Only a few days remain until the SXSW voting deadline!

If you’d like to hear me speak at SXSW London 2025, please consider voting for my submission “Visualizing the Unseen: Algorithms, Generative AI, and the Collective Unconscious”.

👉 Vote here: applyto.sxswlondon.com/entry/vote/lZA…