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