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Simon created three optical illusions in Processing (Java) playing with color. For better effect, you can download Simon’s code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/colorIllusions The Part 1 video is about the first … Continue reading Optical Illusions in Processing (Java)
– Simon, Mom and Dad arranged it quite nicely, to have your birthdat and our wedding anniversary on two consecutive days! – No, it was pure coincidence! – But what … Continue reading Simon turned 9!
Simon in seventh heaven programming an optical illusion in Processing (Java) and watching Physics Girl, what more can you ask for?
Inspired by the Veritasium channel, Simon tests throwing a Slinky nd watching it collapse together and only then fall to the ground. He then ties a tennis ball to the … Continue reading The Slinky Experiment
Simon having fun making antibubbles – bubbles that have water inside them instead of air. Learned this from a Physics Girl video and this online instruction: https://www.antibubble.org/page2.html
Simon took a cylinder and put a chalk inside. When the cylinder rolls, what will the chalk do? Will it move and how will it move? And more importantly, why? … Continue reading Object inside rolling cylinder
Here Simon placed the primary colors in the next to the secondary ones (that he mixed using only the three primary colors) so that the colors that are absolute opposites … Continue reading Color Opposites
If you put a cereal flake in a bowl of water you can steer it with a strong magnet. The magnets above aren’t strong enough, but the really powerful ones … Continue reading How much iron is there in your favorite cereal?
Simon has been into making various hexaflexagons, inspired by the Vihart channel. It was tough at first, but later the same day he didn’t need any help anymore and flexed … Continue reading Hexaflexing
Here Simon tried to induce a magnetic field by allowing electric current to go through a conductor that is normally not magnetic (copper wire). The green stick is a magnet … Continue reading Experimenting with electromagnetism
No matter how much you sharpen either one of these pencils, it will keep having a prime number written on it. Simon adorned them with the largest truncatable prime and … Continue reading Magic Prime Number Pencils
Geeks out of the box 