Boris Gailleton

I am a geomorphologist and numerical modeller at the Université de Rennes. I study how climate, tectonics, and surface processes shape landscapes, and build open tools to investigate them across scales.

Terrain study · Kaikōura, New Zealand
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20 Feb 2026 New blog post: Generalised Swath Profile TutorialA full notebook-style walkthrough of transverse and longitudinal swaths, river-following baselines, and line simplification.

Includes practical parameter choices (`half_width`, `binning_distance`, `n_points_regression`) and complete figures from the original notebook.

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Taichi Lang Seminar

I gave a seminar (in French) about Taichi Lang, a Python JIT for versatile GPU computing.