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)

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

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

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

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

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
