Christian Marques
creative technology & storytelling
Featured Work
Software engineer & creative technologist building interactive 3D experiences, AI-powered tools, and experimental digital projects.
Timewave Zero Explorer
This app is a 3D explorer that attempts to map the fractal "texture" of time, bridging the ancient Chinese oracle I Ching with modern LLM integrations. Inspired by Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory and software, it transforms human history into a navigable spiral of novelty and habit, allowing users to visualize the mathematical patterns that shape our reality. Through immersive Three.js visualizations and an AI-driven "Steward of the Noosphere," the project serves as a digital instrument for finding historical synchronicities and exploring the idea that we are spiraling toward a point of infinite complexity.
Cleromancer
Cleromancer is a modern web application built with TypeScript and Vite that digitizes the ancient Chinese divination process from the Book of Changes. Users simulate the traditional three-coin method to generate six-line hexagrams, rendered visually as full or broken lines, and receive interpretations using the Wilhelm translation—a seminal scholarly work—to provide authentic texts for both the primary hexagram and any secondary "changing line" hexagrams. The app dynamically displays elemental trigrams (Heaven, Earth, Fire, etc.), identifies the corresponding hexagram (1–64) with its classical name, and emphasizes accessibility to one of humanity’s oldest philosophical systems through a clean, responsive interface. Designed for enthusiasts of Eastern philosophy or algorithmic divination, it blends cultural preservation with modern web development practices.
Hamster Monitoring System
When we noticed our hamster, Mooey Maria Hazel, obsessively running on her wheel every night, we decided to find out just how far she was going. What started as a simple Raspberry Pi project quickly turned into a full-stack setup: we used a Hall effect sensor and magnet to track wheel rotations, added a DHT22 sensor for temperature and humidity, and wrote a Python script to send the data to a Next.js backend. The script runs as a systemd service, and the data powers a live dashboard showing Mooey’s activity. After some trial and error with enclosure design — especially since Mooey loves chewing things — we eventually built a safer, more stable system. Now we can monitor her nightly marathons in real time, blending hardware, software, and a lot of hamster love.