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On Friday Simon finished another beautiful Daniel Shiffman coding challenge called Mapping Earthquake Data. The purpose of this coding challenge was to visualize earthquake data from the USGS website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/) by mapping … Continue reading Mapping Earthquake Data Coding Challenge
We spent yesterday under the beautiful fractal tree branches of all sorts. Simon followed a whole set of coding challenges by Daniel Shiffman in algorithmic botany featuring several ways of … Continue reading Fractal Trees 2.0
The next step after the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge was to turn the sphere into supershapes using Daniel Shiffman’s “superformula” in Processing (Java). The result resembled the supershapes Simon had programmed … Continue reading Supershapes
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:
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)
Simon has followed another batch of wonderfully enriching tutorials by Daniel Shiffman on p5.js, this time all about sound, and made these sound visualisations. The first one is based on … Continue reading Sound Visialization
This is another Daniel Shiffman coding challenge where Simon got stuck half way, after hours of building though. The project involved building a video camera program in Processing (Java) and having … Continue reading Computer Vision
Smart Rockets, a coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman. It involved creating a genetic algorithm from scratch and making “smart rockets” (based on a simulation by Jer Thorp). The rockets evolve the … Continue reading Smart Rockets
Simon was trying to apply the AFINN Sentiment Analysis list once again, following a whole playlist of tutorials by Daniel Shiffman. This time things got more complicated as Simon has built a … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis API and Front End Client
Yesterday Simon spent his evening playing with arguments array as taught in Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial. He reenacted the tutorial from memory and explained it to me in detail. My phone’s … Continue reading Arguments Array
Geeks out of the box 