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During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
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 normally uses the old JavaScript syntax but has been looking into the new ES6. Below are Simon’s notes on the new syntax in JavaScript called ES6 for cleaner more … Continue reading ES6, the new syntax
Simon spent hours studying the D3 library on Sunday, it’s a very popular JavaScript library using SVG images he had never tried before. He also found it great how the … Continue reading Simon trying out the D3 library
This weekend Simon told me he came up with this rule that if you take two denominators that make rational fractions when you divide one by those denominators and you … Continue reading Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
Simon built a program in Codea visualizing the absolute value of a vector:
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?
Note: See the update at the bottom of this post! We’ve had quite a dramatic situation here for the past couple of days, after Simon turned Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering … Continue reading Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game
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
This is a sound synthesis project that Simon created using p5 references. It’s quite intense sound, so maybe you should turn the volume down a notch. It’s funny how Simon … Continue reading Sound Synthesis Project. Simon’s own code.
Simon created a website to assist people using Box2D. The website features the jBox2D helper. Link to Simon’s website: https://simon-tiger.github.io/box2d-helper/ GitHub Issue about the project: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Topics/issues/616 Simon ported the code … Continue reading Simon built a website featuring Box2D helper
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