a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon wrote his own code in Processing (Java) to draw flowers using the attraction and repulsion algorithm with the ToxicLibs library. He also put this project on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/rosepettels_toxiclibs_verletphysics
Simon recorded a series of “tutorials” based upon what he learned about springs and spring force from Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code book, Chapter 3 Oscillation and corresponding videos.
This is a beautiful “lecture” that Simon in his pajamas, chocolate paste adorning is face, game me Friday morning. He spoke about pendulum force, a force he was about to apply … Continue reading Pendulum Force
This morning Simon attempted to make a more difficult translation in the Codea app of an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. It concerned the Gravitational Attraction example … Continue reading Translating examples from The Nature of Code into Lua (Codea)
Playing with examples from Chapter 3 of The Nature of Code, Oscillation, covering trigonometry and connecting it to forces. The examples included simple harmonic motion, angular velocity and waves, as … Continue reading Playing with examples on Forces and Oscillation from The Nature of Code
We had a great Sunday visiting friends in The Netherlands whose kids resemble Simon in many ways. Simon made his signature bubble solution: and learned about ray tracing in Java: … Continue reading 2048
Following along Daniel Shiffman’s Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge: extracting font path points from text in p5.js with p5.Font.textToPoints() and rendering the text as particles with steering behaviors that react to … Continue reading Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge
Another translation involving the Codea app, only this time Simon decided to translate an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. The example comes from … Continue reading The Nature of Code Forces example translated into Lua
Simon also worked on a Markov Chains projects this weekend, trying to introduce a slider into his text generating code. “A Markov Chain can be described as a sequence of random … Continue reading Markov Chains. Simon added a slider.
Simon came up with an idea to translate a physics visualization from the Codea app (using a language called Lua) into Processing (Java) by applying Box2D. The first two videos … Continue reading Simple Physics. Translating from Lua (the language in the Codea app) into Java
Simon’s take on the Minesweeper Coding Challenge. Here Simon suggests his way to customise the Minesweeper game: create a high score: Simon working on the customised version: Later he got … Continue reading Minesweeper
Simon translated part of the Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). In the first video below he explains the formulas for attraction and repulsion forces: … Continue reading Simon translated Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge into Java
Geeks out of the box 