On Social Development
Last night Simon had this social experience like never before: for the first time in his life, he followed a long (nearly 3 hrs) live programming session and actively participated … Continue reading On Social Development
Category: Coding
Autonomous Agents. Steering Behaviors. Flocking.
Simon’s full-screen take on Flocking, based on Chapter 6 from The Nature of Code (Autonomous Agents). The code comes from Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial Combining Behaviors: Flocking. In Simon’s words, Autonomous … Continue reading Autonomous Agents. Steering Behaviors. Flocking.
Drawing Object Trails in Processing
Simon’s translation of the Drawing Object Trails p5.js tutorial into Processing. In the tutorial, Daniel Shiffman looked at how an object can store a history of positions thus allowing to render the object’s … Continue reading Drawing Object Trails in Processing
Minimum Spanning Tree in Processing
Simon’s version of Daniel Shiffman’s Minimum Spanning Tree tutorial: Simon translated it from JavaScript into Processing (Java), “a much more complex project than the circles with no overlap!” A minimum spanning … Continue reading Minimum Spanning Tree in Processing
Random Circles with No Overlap in Processing
Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s p5.js tutorial on random circles with no overlap into Processing (Java). The project is about a “circle packing”-like algorithm. Circles are placed randomly in the canvas, but only … Continue reading Random Circles with No Overlap in Processing
Cellular Automata in Arduino
Yesterday Simon spent the whole day studying the concept of Cellular Automaton (CA), a discrete model of a system of “cell” objects used in physics, math and theoretical biology. He … Continue reading Cellular Automata in Arduino
Buzzing Bee translated into Lua (Codea)
Simon really enjoyed Daniel Shiffman’s “buzzing bee” (from the Graphing 1D Perlin Noise tutorial) into Lua, the language of the Codea app.
Color Box in Processing. Simon’s own code.
“This one doesn’t have that much code inside!” – Simon explains. It’s still a fun idea though: drawing a box (a cube) that “has all of the colors you can … Continue reading Color Box in Processing. Simon’s own code.
Smart Rockets Coding Challenge translated into Processing (Java)
And here is Simon’s translation of Daniel Shiffman’s Smart Rockets Coding Challenge into Processing (Java). This challenge (originally in JavaScript) was about implementing a genetic algorithm from scratch and create “smart rockets” … Continue reading Smart Rockets Coding Challenge translated into Processing (Java)
Perlin Noise Combined with Sine Wave Translation into Processing
Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Graphing 1D Perlin Noise tutorial into Processing (Java). The project involved combining perlin noise and sine wave: He also attempted to translate Perlin Noise Flow Field … Continue reading Perlin Noise Combined with Sine Wave Translation into Processing
Polar to Cartesian converter (Simon’s own code)
Simon built a Polar to Cartesian converter (Simon’s own code). You can enter the radius in pixels and the angle in degrees, click “convert” and you get the coordinates in … Continue reading Polar to Cartesian converter (Simon’s own code)
Plinko game translated into Processing (Java) and Box2D
Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Plinko game coding challenge from JavaScript and Matter.JS into Processing (Java) and Box2D: Simon adds that he didn’t actually do part 4 of the coding challenge, … Continue reading Plinko game translated into Processing (Java) and Box2D
Geeks out of the box 