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Taylor Baldwin
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@taylorbaldwin
Engineering @modal co-founder @JamsocketHQ (acquired 2025) • YC W22 web graphics • data vis/eng • classical piano • ex @datadoghq @uber @nytimes r&d
New York, NY
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Jul 10, 2025
    Couldn't be more excited to join the awesome team at @modal_labs!
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    Jul 10, 2025
    Super excited that @JamsocketHQ joining @modal_labs with founders @paulgb and @taylorbaldwin. We've had many talks about virtualization and infrastructure with the Jamsocket team over the years. Looking forward to building some crazy stuff together.
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    Aug 17, 2024
    Spent the last few weeks parsing NYC's massive 2017 lidar dataset (almost 1TB of data) and segmenting them by building. Now you can select any of NYC's more than 1M buildings and see its point cloud. #webgpu
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    Apr 23, 2018
    Excited to finally release this 3D interactive #DataVisualization that renders all 47K buildings in Manhattan. Best on desktop Chrome! 😬 tbaldw.in/nyc-buildings #creativecoding #dataviz #nyc
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Aug 24, 2017
    Finally releasing the Citi Bike #dataviz I've been working on! tbaldw.in/citibike-trips Only works on desktop right now 😬
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    Aug 22, 2024
    Replying to @SpencerAlthouse
    Shady cameraman!
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Jun 17, 2020
    Finally updated my sketches gallery to include work from the last 2 years. Many are parameterized, animated, and interactive, so the screenshots don't always do them justice. rolyatmax.github.io/sketches #generative #creativecoding #webgl #javascript
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    Jan 29, 2018
    Figured I'd go ahead and release this little music visualization I've been working on for a bit. Best on desktop Chrome 😬 🎵Oh, and the video has sound! 🎵 tbaldw.in/audiofabric #musicvisualization #creativecoding
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Jul 11, 2024
    Finally got picking working #webgpu
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Mar 20, 2020
    Replying to @robspillman
    That’s a Chopin Etude - Op 25 No 1 in A-flat Major, for those who were asking
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    Jul 16, 2020
    Today it's LiDAR data! This little patch of midtown has 17M points. #webgl #lidar #pointcloud #datavis #maps #javascript
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    Apr 8, 2018
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    All the buildings of Manhattan, silhouetted, ordered by height. #datavisualization
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Feb 23, 2023
    Short video from a weekend project that renders all 1M+ buildings (36M triangles) in NYC using WebGPU.
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Jun 15, 2024
    Alright, now I've got every building in New York in here. That's more than 1M buildings, 35M triangles. Next step: convert base map lat/longs to the building coord system, EPSG:2263 (or vice versa). Then, prioritized streaming based on camera position.
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    @taylorbaldwin
    Jul 14, 2020
    Now for the whole city ~800K buildings ~27M triangles rendered in Chrome at 60 FPS (on an RTX 2070 😬) #creativecoding #maps #webgl #javascript
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