Daniel Ellis Research

A Virtual Reality experience for exploring Earth's ecosystem and climate systems.

Efficiency and Optimisation: Exploring the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) and Common Representative Intermediates (CRI) for tropospheric chemistry

RS Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms ★

Custom map tile generation and visualisation engine for the 2021 UK Census, rendering dot-density population distributions at national scale directly in the browser.

VS Census Map

A comprehensive three-chapter WebGL scrollytelling experience and tutorial covering fermat spirals, shaders, 3D models, textures, raycasting and animation.

VS WebGL Complex Visualisation Tutorial: Meet It's Dan ★

Long-form technical writing covering climate data infrastructure, linked data systems, scientific visualisation, and open-source tooling for environmental research.

R Medium Articles ★

Tools, libraries, and datasets I've built and released publicly.

S FOSS Projects ★

Fragment shader library for smooth kernel density estimation rendered directly in the browser at scale. Simplex noise generates pseudo-random clustered dot distributions to represent anonymised population density within regions.

VS WebGL Shader Density

Control your computer with a wave. Open apps, scroll pages, switch windows — without touching your keyboard.

AS ∆-Hi! Hand signal APP switching.

The Born in Bradford citizen science project — deploying low-cost wearable air quality sensors with schoolchildren to produce high-resolution maps of urban pollution exposure across Bradford.

R Portable Air Quality Sensors

Using the voxels of MRI scan stacks to produce watertight 3D meshes via marching cubes — exported for CAD, 3D printing, and real-time browser visualisation with Three.js.

MS DICOM — 3D Medical Imaging

A Dragon NaturallySpeaking-compatible Chrome extension for hands-free web navigation, using the 200 most common English words as voice targets to navigate any page without custom site integration.

AS Accessibility Chrome Extension