Identification · Fig. 00

Martin SundalAspås

Software engineer. Robotics and simulation, out of Trondheim.

Field

Robotics

Simulation

Location

Trondheim

Norway · 63.4°N

Specimens

05 projects

01 board

Fig. 01 — The board

Conway B3/S23 356 × 192 cells

Seeded from martin_plan.txt · no input after that Still life · stable

276

Gen of 276

388

Pop live cells

Conway's game of life, run from a seeded start. The board stops changing at generation 276. What is left is a still life, and it spells MARTIN.

Fig. 02 — Selected work, plotted

5 specimens · not uniform

X is runtime, Y is subject. Each project carries its coordinates again below; hover either and the other lights up.

Study Companion

X 0.80 / Y 0.24

An Astro framework where a university course is authored as data, not as a website.

NTNU Course Data API, MCP Server & Timetable

X 0.88 / Y 0.10

Built to be able to ask Claude when the exams are. A typed client over NTNU's three course-data systems, with an MCP server and a timetable on top.

Cipherbound

X 0.18 / Y 0.62

A Pokémon-like game written from scratch in C++, and the best project in its NTNU course.

Interactive Black Hole Renderer

X 0.10 / Y 0.92

A C++ ray tracer for Schwarzschild spacetime. One photon geodesic per pixel, integrated until it hits the disc, crosses the horizon, or escapes.

Game of Life Text Generator

X 0.70 / Y 0.78

Type a word and it gets built out of colliding gliders in Conway's Game of Life.

Fig. 03 — Provenance

The projects above are things I wanted to exist: a Game of Life that spells my name, a black hole for my phone background, a Pokémon-like for a C++ course, a way to ask Claude when my lectures are.

Fig. 04 — Day job

Current

Aker Solutions

Verdal · Norway

The work in detail

Fig. 05 — Studies

Year 03 / 05

Fig. 05a · Quantum corral

Re ψ = \sum_{m} c_{m} J_{m} (j_{m 1} r) \cos (m θ \pm ω_{m} t)

m = 0, 2, 3 · turn 72s

Institution

NTNU · Trondheim

Applied Physics and Mathematics

Fysikk og matematikk · integrated MSc · 5 years

Specialization · from year 03

Quantum Technology

Kvanteteknologi · MTFYMAKVANTE24

Quantum computing is what I want to work on. It is physics and computing at the same time, and nobody knows yet what it turns into. Year 03 is the first year with a choice in it; there were four specializations, and I took that one.

Fig. 05b · Bloch sphere
Driven qubit · tilted precession · T 60s