a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
This is one Simon’s most beautiful projects recently! Simon saw the idea to link the webcam image to the boids of a flocking system in a video by Daniel Shiffman, … Continue reading Flocking System Painting with Pixels
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
Simon’s sketch is available online at https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/B1GtGlDGb This train simulation is Simon’s own code using the seek and flee steering behaviors… and a slider:
Simon’s full-screen take on Flocking, based on Chapter 6 from The Nature of Code (Autonomous Agents). The code comes from Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial Combining Behaviors: Flocking. In Simon’s words, Autonomous … Continue reading Autonomous Agents. Steering Behaviors. Flocking.
On Wednesday Simon went on with playing god (evolution simulation) and translated Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge from JavaScript to Java. The goal of the challenge is to … Continue reading Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors
Today Simon spent hours watching videos and reading Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code, concentrating on more complicated matters than ever: autonomous agents and evolution (genetic algorithms). In The … Continue reading Autonomous Agents and Genetic Algorithms
Geeks out of the box 