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Monday morning Simon showed me the Chaos Game: he created three random dots on a sheet of paper (the corners of a triangle) and was throwing dice to determine where … Continue reading Chaos Game and the Serpinski Triangle
Simon built this #recursion example/ pattern (a Sierpinski triangle) in Codea (using the language Lua) while we a had a coffee at a cafe:
Simon created this animation in Codea during his Chinese lesson, to congratulate Dad on his 40th birthday. And this was a task he came with after the vacation:
Simon comparing possibilities to create 4D noise in different computer languages:
We were caught up in the rain and had to wait at a restaurant. What do you do in a situation like this? Simon made a snake game on his … Continue reading Snake Game in Codea
Simon built a program in Codea visualizing the absolute value of a vector:
A set of awesome Codea tutorials that Simon recorded for those who are just starting to program in Codea. Simon ported examples from Processing (java) into Codea (Lua): In the … Continue reading Simon’s Codea Tutorials and the Arc-Tangent
Simon translating the game of Pong from Codea (Lua) into Processing (Java).
Simon was preoccupied with vector functions for most of the day on Saturday, compiling what, at first site, looked like a monstrously excessive code in Processing (he recycled some of … Continue reading Back to Python (and C#)!
Simon actually managed to solve the bug in his Bit invader code! This is a game he was translating from Codea into JavaScript, we have already published a blog post … Continue reading Simon solved the bug in his Bit Invader game!
Simon tried to reconstruct Bit Invader game (from Codea.io) in JavaScript, but got stuck at a certain point when he was programming the enemy to recognize the hero and the … Continue reading Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript
On Monday this week Simon spent hours converting hexadecimals into RGBA values for the 140 colors supported by all modern browsers and creating a color file in Codea. He used … Continue reading RGB Project in Codea using SVG Color Map
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