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Simon also worked on a Markov Chains projects this weekend, trying to introduce a slider into his text generating code. “A Markov Chain can be described as a sequence of random … Continue reading Markov Chains. Simon added a slider.
Simon came up with an idea to translate a physics visualization from the Codea app (using a language called Lua) into Processing (Java) by applying Box2D. The first two videos … Continue reading Simple Physics. Translating from Lua (the language in the Codea app) into Java
Simon’s take on the Minesweeper Coding Challenge. Here Simon suggests his way to customise the Minesweeper game: create a high score: Simon working on the customised version: Later he got … Continue reading Minesweeper
Simon translated part of the Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). In the first video below he explains the formulas for attraction and repulsion forces: … Continue reading Simon translated Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge into Java
In this project Simon combined two exercises and one example from Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code book, Chapter 5 – Physic Libraries. The specific physics library used here is Box2D. … Continue reading MotorAttractor with Box2D in Processing (Java)
Had great fun last week playing with the code Simon wrote following along Daniel Shiffman’s RiTa.JS tutorial. The code generated words from the built-in RiTa lexicon, and that lexicon is … Continue reading RiTa.JS
The notes above are from a couple days ago when Simon was trying to explain to me, where the formula for calculating similarity s = 1/1+c comes from. He linked it … Continue reading Nearest Neighbour Coding Challenge. Euclidean Distance.
Simon translated the Fractal Spirograph Coding Challenge from Processing into JavaScript:
Over he past few days, Simon has been busy reading Daniel Shiffman’s first book Learning Processing. He watches the video tutorials corresponding to the chapters in the book and completes … Continue reading Reading the Learning Processing Book
Simon has written a code about using Polar Distribution to create clusters in p5.js (JavaScript). The code is available online at: https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/Sy1CX71xZ The little particles are attracted to one another but don’t … Continue reading Polar Distribution to create clusters
Simon created an engine that uses trigonometrical (polar coordinates) formulas to produce beautiful roses. He reproduced the code originally created by Daniel Shiffman from memory and searched for the formulas … Continue reading Polar Roses in JavaScript
Changing the colours inside an image: Matrix to change the contrast of an image. Here Simon explains how this method works: And here he attempted to incorporate the matrices … Continue reading Image Processing in Java
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