a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has created a beautiful little website with a tutorial (that he wrote completely on his own, from scratch) on how to build a superellipse in JavaScript. Here is the link: https://thimbleprojects.org/simontiger/315031/ … Continue reading Simon’s Superellipse tutorial on Thimble
We’re back from a beautiful vacation in France and Spain, and it’s official now: All Shapes and Sizes by Murderous Maths’ Kjartan Poskitt is the winner! And the runner up: … Continue reading And the winner is…
Simon is talking about various shapes having various number of dimensions, which, oddly enough, doesn’t have to be a whole number. Based on maths tutorials on 3Blue1Brown channel, that Simon … Continue reading Fractal Dimensions
Simon has been studying various 2D collisions (via the p5.collide2D library and paulbourke.net), especially the Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision). He was so busy with this problem that he even put it down in chalk … Continue reading Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
Simon playing around with sine, cosine and radii in Grapher:
Simon built a program in Codea visualizing the absolute value of a vector:
Simon shows a project he built using the p5.collide.2D library – he combined two codes from GitHub to make a program looking for intersection points between two lines in JavaScript:
We continue reading the Russian adventurous math books by Vladimir Levshin (1904-1984) – see an older post about it – and Simon is often excited about the challenges discussed. This time however, … Continue reading How to double a cube?
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 returned to the Solar System in Processing Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman – something he tried before and got stuck. He has now successfully completed both the 2D and … Continue reading Solar System in Processing Coding Challenge
Here Simon explains how to calculate the magnitude of a 3D vector. This is something he partially figured out on his own and partially learned from Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial on … Continue reading Magnitude of a 3D vector
Today Simon spent hours translating this Car On Terrain project from Phaser.io (where it appears in JavaScript) into Processing (Java). He loved doing it in a form of a lesson for … Continue reading Translating Car On Terrain project from Phaser.io into Processing
Geeks out of the box 