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Everyone at our household have always had aversion to violent computer games. When we speak of games, we mainly speak of immersive environments, educational games and, since Simon took his … Continue reading First Steps in Unity 🎱
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
Simon continued his lectures about transformations in Processing (Java). Processing has built-in functions that make it easy for you to have objects in a sketch move, spin, and grow or shrink: … Continue reading 2D and 3D Transformations in Processing (Java) Continued
The earthquake data visualization coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman went further than just a 2D map – it went 3D! Simon managed to complete the challenge, except for the very last … Continue reading 3D Earthquake Data Visualization Coding Challenge
We have purchased something Simon wanted to have for months already: new software to construct the craziest 3D-supershapes! The software is pretty old, developed by Australian programmer Paul Bourke long before … Continue reading Crazy Supershapes
Is that a bunny on the first picture? No, says Simon, it’s the area of a quarter of a cone! And that funny face on the floor? That’s the area … Continue reading 3D shapes dissected and unfolded
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