Project Type
Vibe Coding // Photography
Industry
Sports Photography
2026 Women's Big 12 Soccer Tournament
Overview
The 2026 Women’s Big 12 Soccer Tournament project is an interactive data-visual storytelling experience that transforms my tournament photography into a living, explorable system. Instead of presenting static galleries, this project visualizes 12,000+ RAW captures and curated edits as a dynamic gravity-based dot field that users can have fun with and interact with these photographs to bring them to life.
The Goal
What needs to line up for a "good shot"?
The Context
The Kansas Jayhawks women’s soccer team are coming in as the #7 seed in the tournament and after last year's wild finish with a championship, they are now the defending champs. For the first time in program history, the Jayhawks make back to back appearances in the championship game. Proving that last year wasn't a fluke.
The RAW numbers
(Pun intended)
There were a lot of photos taken, but just how much actually make the cut?
This breakdown reveals the thousands of RAW images taken to the refined edits and rare goal images that tell the story of the tournament
Round 1: KU vs West Virginia
Semifinals: KU vs Colorado
Championship: KU vs BYU
What the Numbers Say
The more efficient I am at shooting (RAW to Edit Ratio), the less goals the team scored so I am actually the reason they lost in the championship game, that is my fault, I take full repsonsibility, but this was just the start of the project.
Trials and Tribulations
I started it with a good vision, but very early got stuck with the code that Base44 was giving me. I got frustrated but kept trusting the process.
It was having a hard time with my images for the mini game. So I worked overtime with ChatGPT and even switched to ChatGPT’s browser Atlas to really tackle the situation at hand
Vibe coding is a two way communication street.
I figured out that the best way to really troubleshoot the problems in vibe coding is you can't expect the AI to solve everything in one prompt. So you really need to ask the AI very simple questions towards the problem and ask it to show you where the problems are in the code to really solve the problem. Also, don’t forget to celebrate with your AI because its the small victories that lead to the big ones
