Hi, I'm

Reimer
Rigtering

I'm a Designer and Developer studying at and working for Delft University of Technology.
I study Industrial Design Engineering and work as Student Coding and Media Support for the TU Delft Library.

Design

Be Social, Make Friends

Be Social, Make Friends

I designed a social gathering space for teenagers to meet on Sunday evenings so they can meet up and play games. This is a space created to give teenagers a meeting place and is open to everybody. The idea is to stimulate contact between these teenagers and take them outside their own daily bubble. This is all to combat loneliness, provide new perspectives, and offer teenagers a sense of community with people their own age. This way, they have opportunities to help and support each other.

This space started as a messy upstairs area of a church in the city center of Heemskerk. Over a period of about 3 months, I designed and built, with the help of some friends, the entire space. Taking into account budget constraints, flexibility in the purpose of the space, and the fact that the church is a monument, which brings its own restrictions. This project involved sketching, pitching to the church board for a budget, 3D modeling, and ultimately building everything, among many other tasks.

Curious 'bout Art

Curious 'bout Art

This artwork was created by a team with the goal of stimulating the senses by using sound, lights, and haptics to draw the user in and make the surroundings fade away. Felt was used to stimulate touch within the artwork, while lights and connected headphones created light and sounds based on the position of your hands within the piece.

The artwork has "invisible strings" you can play. Three vertical lines where your hands generate and mix sounds and lights. Different heights produced vibrant tones within octaves, and the various strings corresponded to different colors. When playing multiple strings simultaneously, the sound and light would combine into completely new patterns and effects.

VR Designing

VR Designing

With a team of three people, I designed a Mars rover using VR sketching. The rover was created by moving in VR and sketching directly into the virtual environment. After many iterations and changes, this was the final result.

We began by creating a full-scale frame to establish the basic shape. Then, through an extensive process, the frame was enclosed using sheets that connected all the ribs. We ensured that every component had double walls to avoid paper-thin surfaces and to provide an interior living space. We added all the necessary elements to make the rover suitable for multi-day missions in the future.

Finally, the rover was rendered in Blender to produce high-quality visuals and present the concept.

Coding

Quantum-English

Quantum-English

The Quantum Poiesis project is a piece where I did the coding for an artist. It is the first step towards a quantum computer speaking Old English.

This piece runs a quantum computer simulation based on a quantum computer from QuTech. The data from these quantum bits are plotted on a sphere, which are then translated into letters. After linking the letters together into words, phonemes of these words are generated. These are then spoken aloud by the computer using a Text-to-Speech engine. To ensure this system runs continuously in an exhibition, it needed to be robust and capable of running indefinitely without human intervention.

This piece uses a combination of Python for all the background tasks and Kotlin with OPENRNDR for the foreground.

Love some good UI

Love some good UI

I coded many small personal projects using Python, often creating simple games with Pygame. Wanting an easier way to create UI elements, I developed my own library to support Pygame and make UI elements more straightforward. Using this library, scenes, animations, buttons, bars, and much more only require a few lines of code, while maintaining a great deal of customizability.

Attention Gamers

Attention Gamers

I created games in Unity twice with a group of people, using C# to develop relatively complex games within a matter of weeks. I worked on creating different mechanics and interactions between objects, as well as various game modes for different gaming experiences.

I also created games without an engine like Unity, often using my own library or OPENRNDR to develop games in Python or Kotlin.