Category: Crafty
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Grandfather Paradox on a Möbius strip
The famous Grandfather Paradox (you travel to the past and kill your grandfather, which prevents the your existence) on a Möbius strip. Simon’s inspiration comes from the “Solution to the Grandfather Paradox” video … Continue reading Grandfather Paradox on a Möbius strip
Making small animations with Python turtle
This is what I got from the kids yesterday as my Mother’s Day present. Simon has taught Neva to make little animations in Python. This is another little video of … Continue reading Making small animations with Python turtle
Autonomous Google Bee Game
Inspired by the Google Bee Game published on Earth Day 2020, Simon created his own autonomous bee game, “a combination of a cellular automaton and a Turing machine”. Simon’s code: … Continue reading Autonomous Google Bee Game
Sound Wave Simulation
Simon created a string simulation or a simulation of a traveling wave, something he used to experiment with using a slinky. Pressing the F key flattens the wave, the T … Continue reading Sound Wave Simulation
Doughnut Education
Pondering over the future, I told the kids the universal basic income and Doughnut Economics should be the next step. Simon game me an improvised lecture on doughnut topology. Well, … Continue reading Doughnut Education
Corona Math
On March 17, Simon started a series of math and coding projects about COVID-19. The first projects he called Corona Math: Why Social Isolation? This is part I of my … Continue reading Corona Math
Pi Day 2020
This year’s Pi Day wasn’t as joyful as in the previous years, as it coincided with our first week in self-isolation and we were too preoccupied to make sure we … Continue reading Pi Day 2020
Beautiful fractals, this time not programmed but drawn by hand in an image editor
Simon learned this technique from a wonderful channel he has recently discovered called CodeParade. He mainly follows this channel for its machine learning projects, but this cool little trick on … Continue reading Beautiful fractals, this time not programmed but drawn by hand in an image editor
Spherical Geometry
After Simon read up on spherical geometry on Brilliant.org, he and Neva crafted some pretty colourful half-spheres. How’s that as an alternative to Easter eggs? Simon has also discovered a … Continue reading Spherical Geometry
Ancient Chinese Game Luk Tsut K’i Game in p5.js
Play Simon’s game: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/1pGeJY7c Code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/1pGeJY7c Simon learned this game on Brilliant.org at https://brilliant.org/practice/winning-moves/?chapter=competitive-games (Warning: this link will only work if you have a Premium Subscription to Brilliant). Brilliant describes … Continue reading Ancient Chinese Game Luk Tsut K’i Game in p5.js
Geeks out of the box 