Simon’s Spellcheck API

Simon has continued with server side programming and made a spellcheck API! Here is the link, you can play with it yourself by adding new words to the corpus (dictionary): … Continue reading Simon’s Spellcheck API

Wikipedia Crawler

Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler

Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter

A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own … Continue reading Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter

Simon’s Acrostic Machine

Last Friday Daniel Shiffman was finally back with his weekly livestreams! Simon was delirious with joy that he could be part of the team again and weeping and panicking every … Continue reading Simon’s Acrostic Machine

Computer Vision Projects in Java (Processing)

Among other projects during the vacation were also computer vision projects: color sensor, color tracker, motion sensor and motion/ face detection in Java (in Processing), partially Simon’s own code:   … Continue reading Computer Vision Projects in Java (Processing)

Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?

During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?

Flocking System Painting with Pixels

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

Circle Intersection with Perlin Noise in Processing (Interactive)

Simon built a beautiful interactive circle intersection program in Processing, in which the circles detect intersection and change colors (according to Perlin Noise) once it occurs. The player can control … Continue reading Circle Intersection with Perlin Noise in Processing (Interactive)

Fractal Trees Customized

This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized