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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 hadn’t been writing in Python for months but seems to be quite fluent still, here using the Python space in Processing for the first time:
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 comparing possibilities to create 4D noise in different computer languages:
Simon has created animations visualizing sound waves (Triangle, Sawtooth, Square and Sine waves) in Processing (Java), using wave functions. These are the functions he used for the Sawtooth, Square and … Continue reading Sound Wave Maths in Processing
This is one of Simon’s most enchanting and challenging projects so far: working on his own little AIs. As I’ve mentioned before, when it comes to discussing AI, Simon is … Continue reading Simon’s own little neural network
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 was reading about math functions on Wikipedia and came up with an idea to create an interactive math functions editor in JavaScript that would visualize (i.e. show the graphs … Continue reading Interactive Math Functions
Simon playing around with sine, cosine and radii in Grapher:
This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized
Geeks out of the box 