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In my spare time from 2020 to 2025, I designed and built Valence 3D — a powerful, beautiful & easy-to-use 3D modeling app for iPad and iPhone. Valence empowers anyone to create 3D models with polygons and subdivision surfaces, anytime and anywhere. It’s carefully crafted to enable flow and fun.
Valence is my magnum opus — the culmination of 20 years of exploration and research in real-time 3D graphics, user experience, interface and interaction design, and software engineering.
Major accomplishments include:
- Invented new touch based interaction paradigms for 3D selection and modeling.
- Implementing a minimal and clean interface for complex 3D modeling on iPhone & iPad.
- Wrote the low level rendering engine (Satin) and mesh manipulation algorithms.
- Designing and implemented the marketing and support site.
- Maintained and improved the app to be more stable and feature rich.
- Supported the community using the app via discord and other social media platforms.
Valence was launched on the Apple App Store on March 14, 2024. Learn more about it here or watch the quick tour video below.
