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Simon explains how to to turn Platonic Solids into Archimedean Solids, using truncation and rectification. Simon explains how to convert Platonic Solids to Archimedean Solids and builds a Rhombicosidodecahedron … Continue reading From Platonic Solids to Archimedean Solids
Some outside fun: Simon uses a regular hexagon, equilateral triangles and squares to build a regular dodecagon, and right angled isoceles triangles (with sides equal to 1 and the hypotenuse … Continue reading Tiling shapes to build dodecagon and octagon
Simon built this #recursion example/ pattern (a Sierpinski triangle) in Codea (using the language Lua) while we a had a coffee at a cafe:
There’s been a lot of drawing going on here lately. And jokes, like in the video above. Yesterday, after he got distracted while trying to draw the exact tangent … Continue reading Where are my compasses?
Simon is talking about various shapes having various number of dimensions, which, oddly enough, doesn’t have to be a whole number. Based on maths tutorials on 3Blue1Brown channel, that Simon … Continue reading Fractal Dimensions
Simon playing around with sine, cosine and radii in Grapher:
Here Simon explains how to calculate the magnitude of a 3D vector. This is something he partially figured out on his own and partially learned from Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial on … Continue reading Magnitude of a 3D vector
A beautiful project in Processing (Java), Simon’s own code, resembling an El Lissitzky painting that you can control and change with the mouse (without Simon knowing El Lissitzky). Resulted from … Continue reading Infinite Line in Processing. Simon’s own code.
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
Today Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s tutorials to learn about drag force and how to apply it when building a spring simulation in p5.js. Simon wrote the formula for drag force … Continue reading Oscillation and Drag Force: Spring Project.
What sort of literature do you fancy in the evening? Simon’s downloaded the book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants tonight. Here Simon explained to me how L-systems and Cantor Set … Continue reading L-Systems
Now this was pretty amazing! Simon’s new own code, that he so nonchalantly wrote while “having a break” from practicing recursive functions, generates “triangular numbers”. A triangular number or triangle number … Continue reading Triangle Numbers. Simon’s own code
Geeks out of the box 