İlayda Özel
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Selected Projects

Projects

Academic and personal projects across AI, immersive technologies (VR/AR), and web platforms.

Personal Project

2025 – Present

atiyeozel.art — Artist Portfolio & Commission Platform

  • An artist portfolio and commission platform built for my mother, painter Atiye Özel

  • Built on Next.js and Storyblok CMS

  • Includes a gallery, individual artwork detail pages, and a commission pricing table

  • Features client testimonials and a contact form with inquiry-type routing

  • Content is fully CMS-managed and the site is bilingual (TR/EN)

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSStoryblok CMS
atiyeozel.art — Artist Portfolio & Commission Platform

Personal Project

04/2023 – 08/2023

3D Art Gallery

  • A walkable, first-person virtual art gallery built with Three.js and TypeScript

  • Wander through a room hung with world-famous paintings — Van Gogh, da Vinci, Vermeer, Hokusai, Monet and more — and look at any piece to read its title, artist and story

  • First-person movement with mouse-look and WASD/arrow keys (falls back to touch controls on mobile)

  • An artwork info card appears when you look directly at a painting, showing its title, artist and description

  • A loading screen with a progress bar so the gallery only opens once every painting has loaded

Three.jsTypeScriptVite
3D Art Gallery

Artistic-Media Project · Graded 1.0

WS 2025/26

TwistrAI — AI as a Creative Disruptor

  • An experimental AI web app that deliberately subverts user prompts before image generation

  • A Gemini 2.5 pipeline inverts a prompt's mood, lighting, and environment while keeping its subject

  • Imagen 4 renders the final result

  • Wrapped in a playful chat interface with a random-prompt "raffle" feature

  • Deployed on Netlify

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSGemini 2.5Imagen 4Netlify
TwistrAI — AI as a Creative Disruptor

VR/CAVE Immersive Experience · Course Project

SS 2025

Miner's Quest

  • An immersive VR experience built for a CAVE environment

  • A treasure is sealed in a forgotten cave. A crystal transports you to a library where a riddle is your guide. Solve its 3 challenges to find the key, return, and unlock your fortune.

  • Focused on user interaction and experience design

  • Presented at LMU's Open Lab Day

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Miner's Quest

Information Visualization

WS 2024/25

Stravacadabra

  • UI/UX contribution to an interactive visualization comparing our professor Dr. Butz's and our classmate's Strava activity (running, swimming, cycling)

  • 3D avatars placed in real-world HDRI environments frame the datasets as a friendly competition

  • Includes bar, spider, line, and theme-river charts

D3.jsSvelteThrelte (Three.js)Blender
Stravacadabra

Bachelor's Thesis · Izmir Institute of Technology

2022 – 2023

Erasmus Without Paper (EWP)

  • An in-house digital implementation of the EU's Erasmus Without Paper (EWP) initiative

  • Frontend built with Next.js, backed by .NET APIs and an MSSQL database

  • Developed as my Bachelor's thesis at Izmir Institute of Technology

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Erasmus Without Paper (EWP)