
Deferring KIRA’s 3D Avatar Until the First Conversation
How two React states defer KIRA’s WebGL avatar until first use, preserve it after closing, and make its lifecycle observable in the browser.
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Research & engineering notes
Research notes and honest postmortems by Levon Zhao on AI, computer graphics, and the systems behind games and software.

How two React states defer KIRA’s WebGL avatar until first use, preserve it after closing, and make its lifecycle observable in the browser.

What 26 line pairs, five transformation studies, and several coordinate bugs taught me about image warping.

Introducing Kolmogorov-Arnold Network modules into YOLO11n and testing the architectural trade-offs.