Bo-Ning Li

I build computational systems — and the tools that make them. Houdini, procedural form, emergence.

Houdini artist and technical generalist at VolvoxLabs. Recent work includes OFFF Barcelona, permanent LED installations in Midtown Manhattan, and content for the Sphere in Las Vegas; the practice extends across projection mapping, public art, and live performance.

Alongside studio work, an open-source practice reoriented around AI — coding agents for Houdini and TouchDesigner, a Copernicus toolkit featured by SideFX, and ongoing experiments with neural cellular automata as a design material.

Rule-based, system-level thinking — physics intuition applied to procedural and natural form. The recurring question: how is form encoded — as physical law, as parametric rule, as learned behavior.

Open Source & Community

GitHub activity — build-time snapshot

870 contributions in the last 365 days at github.com/Boning1011, active on 136 of 365 days (37% of days). In the trailing 6 months: 775 contributions across 88 active days.

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775 contributions in the last 6 months@Boning1011
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MotionCOPs, Houdini Copernicus toolkit.
Houdini AI Agent, Production-tested AI coding-agent for Houdini.
TouchDesigner AI Agent, AI coding-agent for TouchDesigner.
Houdini for Digital Fab, Houdini HDA collection for digital fabrication workflows.
Invited Talks
College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, 2025
Guest lecture on parametric algorithms for the Digital Making undergraduate studio.
College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, 2023
Graduate lecture on Houdini in parametric digital-art practice.
Three weekend workshops on advanced Houdini procedural workflows.
Education
School of Visual Arts
MFA in Computer Arts, Alumni Scholarship
New York, 2021–2023
Tongji University
BE in Environmental Design, Best Thesis Award (2017–2021)
BSc in Physics (2016–2017)
Shanghai
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