Fractal Trees 2.0
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
Tag: geometry
Supershapes
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
Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
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
SVG shapes
Simon spent his Sunday morning programming SVG (scalable vector graphics, a file format for static and dynamic vector images in XML) elements. The code (from w3schools) largely relies on coordinates, … Continue reading SVG shapes
Crazy Supershapes
We have purchased something Simon wanted to have for months already: new software to construct the craziest 3D-supershapes! The software is pretty old, developed by Australian programmer Paul Bourke long before … Continue reading Crazy Supershapes
Superellipse
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
Inspired by the formulas used by Daniel Shiffman to draw phyllotactic patterns, Simon decided to get back to his old favourite. In this rather long video Simon tries to use … Continue reading
The Supershape Formula
Thursday night Simon told me he really needed to draw “something about a circle”. We were having an evening walk at the local park so I gave him a stick … Continue reading The Supershape Formula
Golden Infinity
Simon came up with this “golden infinity” concept on Monday evening and had to wait until Tuesday morning to draw it for me. He started out with an equilateral triangle … Continue reading Golden Infinity
Simon’s Art
A Bear and an Eagle
This is how many 2D shapes a 3D shape corner, a vertice or this amount of degrees has.
This entry can be viewed as an extensive English practice: Simon wrote both the title and the entry (I have corrected one sentence) and recorded an English-language video (you’ll notice … Continue reading This is how many 2D shapes a 3D shape corner, a vertice or this amount of degrees has.
Geeks out of the box 