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Simon completed the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman! In this challenge, he created a sphere in Processing (Java) using spherical coordinates and triangle strips. Simon had already tried doing this … Continue reading Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
Simon built this awesome animation that looks and moves like a hammock on Sunday, a coding challenge on Daniel Shiffman’s channel. In this challenge Simon used the toxiclibs physics library to create … Continue reading 2D and 3D Cloth with ToxicLibs
Simon explains the difference between linear transition and ease transition:
Digisnacks, an electronica course at Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, has started again. This time it’s Lego Mindstorms 2. Simon didn’t follow the Lego Mindstorms 1 course but studied how the set … Continue reading Lego Mindstorms
Simon got seriously hooked on Matter.js, a a 2D JavaScript physics library that supports rigid body collisions and constraints. He started with Daniel Shiffman intro to Matter.js, downloaded it using GitBash … Continue reading Matter.js (Physics Library)
On Tuesday, Simon was following another tutorial by Derek Banas, this time on UML Class Diagrams, and thought it would be fun to draw the diagrams in a new app … Continue reading UML Class Diagrams
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Simon programmed this beautiful rainbow all by himself in Processing (Java). He went to http://clrs.cc/ (also a http://mrmrs.io/ project) to look for the hexadecimals and then used http://html-color-codes.info/ to translate the hexadecimals into … Continue reading Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
In jQuery mobile he made a webpage featuring event handlers: And in CSS, inspired by this :
Simon has been studying Java Design Patterns with Derek Banas. Some he tries to build (videos below), some he gets stuck with, but the topic has kept him excited for … Continue reading Java Design Patterns
Today it has been exactly one year since we chose homeschooling and moved to Antwerp from Amsterdam, where homeschooling was not a legal option. It feels good to see Simon … Continue reading It’s been a year
I thought we could limit ourselves to just two or three filters but Simon wanted to make videos about all the filters he learned, so here you go. The upper … Continue reading AngularJS Filters
Geeks out of the box 