Fractal Trees 2.0
We spent yesterday under the beautiful fractal tree branches of all sorts. Simon followed a whole set of coding challenges by Daniel Shiffman in algorithmic botany featuring several ways of … Continue reading Fractal Trees 2.0
Author: Geeks out of the Box
This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family.
Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/
We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands.
This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.
Supershapes
The next step after the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge was to turn the sphere into supershapes using Daniel Shiffman’s “superformula” in Processing (Java). The result resembled the supershapes Simon had programmed … Continue reading Supershapes
Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
Simon completed the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman! In this challenge, he created a sphere in Processing (Java) using spherical coordinates and triangle strips. Simon had already tried doing this … Continue reading Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
2D and 3D Cloth with ToxicLibs
Simon built this awesome animation that looks and moves like a hammock on Sunday, a coding challenge on Daniel Shiffman’s channel. In this challenge Simon used the toxiclibs physics library to create … Continue reading 2D and 3D Cloth with ToxicLibs
Linear and Ease Transition
Simon explains the difference between linear transition and ease transition:
Lego Mindstorms
Digisnacks, an electronica course at Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, has started again. This time it’s Lego Mindstorms 2. Simon didn’t follow the Lego Mindstorms 1 course but studied how the set … Continue reading Lego Mindstorms
Matter.js (Physics Library)
Simon got seriously hooked on Matter.js, a a 2D JavaScript physics library that supports rigid body collisions and constraints. He started with Daniel Shiffman intro to Matter.js, downloaded it using GitBash … Continue reading Matter.js (Physics Library)
UML Class Diagrams
On Tuesday, Simon was following another tutorial by Derek Banas, this time on UML Class Diagrams, and thought it would be fun to draw the diagrams in a new app … Continue reading UML Class Diagrams
Inequalities Machine 2.0
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
Simon programmed this beautiful rainbow all by himself in Processing (Java). He went to http://clrs.cc/ (also a http://mrmrs.io/ project) to look for the hexadecimals and then used http://html-color-codes.info/ to translate the hexadecimals into … Continue reading Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
Simon likes buttons
In jQuery mobile he made a webpage featuring event handlers: And in CSS, inspired by this :
Topomania
While Mom and sis were away on a ballet weekend to Amsterdam Simon and Dad reviewed some topography. Topography is one of the things Simon used to be completely obsessed with. When … Continue reading Topomania
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