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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!
On Saturday Simon picked up Computer Vision again – something he had tried back in February but got stuck. This time around, he had built up better theoretical knowledge and sketched … Continue reading Computer Vision: Color Tracking and Motion Detection (Java)
In these videos Simon is preparing for a Computer Vision challenge and explains how inheritance works in Processing (Java). Essentially, any PImage can be expressed as a colour array. On … Continue reading Inheritance in Processing (Java)
“Just recycling some building blocks here”, I heard Simon say Monday. This is a screenshot of Simon’s Bubble Project – an animation he built by translating a Java code from … Continue reading Translating from Java to JavaScript. The Bubble Project
Simon continued translating from JavaScript to Java as he followed Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial on creating a mirror based on the brightness values of the pixels from a live video feed. The … Continue reading Translating from JavaScript to Java (Continued)
– Simon, where did you learn translating from JavaScript to Java? – From Dan, of course! I’ve compared the two formulas for converting from 2D to 1D. (The width stands for … Continue reading Translating from JavaScript to Java (Simon wrote this post)
Also among the interests of the past couple of days: the Breadth-first Search and the Depth-first Search: Both are algorithms for searching tree or graph data structures (think: mazes). The Breadth-first Search … Continue reading Recent fascinations
Today Simon showed me what he learned about pixel sorting in Processing (Java) by doing this coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman. Using a “selection sort” algorithm, he sorted the pixels of a sunflower … Continue reading Pixel Sorting in Processing (Java)
“Mommy! Genetic algorithm is AI, ML and DL all at the same time! Scary information. It’s scary information for me,” Simon stares at me, a brand new Daniel Shiffman tutorial … Continue reading Genetic Algorithm
Simon showing gradients in Processing (something he learned via w3schools). Linear and radial gradients: Metaballs: He also wants to create multiple metaballs, but that hasn’t been a success yet. He … Continue reading Gradients in Java
This is what Simon begged me to read to him tonight: The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman. Daniel Shiffman is Simon’s hero. Simon completely owns his knowledge of English, … Continue reading Mom, can you read me a story?
This is so exciting! Simon has written his first Java code completely on his own! It’s an animation of the Archimedean spiral (well, we only found out later that it’s actually called … Continue reading Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
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