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Our Kinect adapter has finally arrived! Simon had been waiting for about one and a half months and was extremely hyper to try out the code he had already written … Continue reading Microsoft Kinect (v2) in Processing using the Open Kinect for Processing library
On Thursday Simon was busy with writing his own code in Java. He called it “Path Following”. The project basically involved simulating different phenomena with a physics particle (having it … Continue reading Path Following (Simon’s own code). Applying restitution.
In these videos Simon explains looping through an array and adding while simultaneously removing things from that array. He recorded this presentation while working on an evolution simulation (Evolutionary Steering Behaviors, see … Continue reading Looping through an array lecture
On Wednesday Simon went on with playing god (evolution simulation) and translated Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge from JavaScript to Java. The goal of the challenge is to … Continue reading Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors
Today Simon spent hours watching videos and reading Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code, concentrating on more complicated matters than ever: autonomous agents and evolution (genetic algorithms). In The … Continue reading Autonomous Agents and Genetic Algorithms
What sort of literature do you fancy in the evening? Simon’s downloaded the book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants tonight. Here Simon explained to me how L-systems and Cantor Set … Continue reading L-Systems
Now this was pretty amazing! Simon’s new own code, that he so nonchalantly wrote while “having a break” from practicing recursive functions, generates “triangular numbers”. A triangular number or triangle number … Continue reading Triangle Numbers. Simon’s own code
Simon followed Daniel Shiffman’s Fractal Recursion tutorial on how to write functions in Processing that call themselves (recursion) for the purpose of drawing fractals. Later he programmed a Sierpinski triangle from memory, … Continue reading Recursive Function: Sierpinski triangle
Simon has studied Context-Free Grammar, following a set of tutorials from Daniel Shiffman’s ITP course “Programming from A to Z“. Context-Free Grammar is a set of recursive “replacement” rules to define … Continue reading Context-Free Grammar
Simon built another project of his own design. His program allows to draw intricate patterns that resemble Islamic tiling, the building block being a polygon of your choice. First, you … Continue reading Connections Project in Java (Simon’s own code)
Simon has come up with a new code of his own! It’s about gravitational attraction (particles attracted to targets or moons attracted to planets) and partially based upon the Box2D library … Continue reading Gravitational Attraction (World Generator in Java). Simon’s new own code!
Simon made this beautiful interactive Islamic star pattern from Daniel Shiffman’s one hour long coding challenge he devoted to the refugees. The coding challenge is based on this paper about … Continue reading Islamic Star Pattern
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