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Simon has been giving Dad some lessons in Processing (Java), following the chapters in Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code. The have already finished Chapetr 1 (Vectors) and moved … Continue reading Preparing to give Dad some Processing Lessons
Simon loves functions. He hasn’t ever studid them in Algebra, but comes across functions regularly in programming. This is what he came up with Wednesday: I showed Simon that … Continue reading Algebra: Functions
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 translated this Bubble project from Codea (a physics library and an app) into p5.js (JavaScript) and put it on GitHub at: https://github.com/simon-tiger/bubble-projects
Several recent translations of Box2D examples (from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code) into Codea, that is Processing (Java) into Lua. Both Box2D and Codea are physics libraries. Surface: … Continue reading Box2D into Codea, Java into Lua
New examples from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code translated into JavaScript in Simon’s Neural Networks collection at https://codepen.io/collection/DbBqJj/
Simon completes the Neural Networks Coding Challenge (in Processing, Java) that he had followed in the Intelligence and Learning Livestream last Friday. In the videos below he also talks about … Continue reading Neural Networks Coding Challenge
Simon has translated Examples 10.1 (Perceptron) and 10.2 (Perceptron Steering) from Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code book, Chapter 10 (Neural Networks) into JavaScript in Codepen.io. Both projects are available online, … Continue reading Neural Networks. Perceptron and Preception Seeking in JavaScript
Last night Simon had this social experience like never before: for the first time in his life, he followed a long (nearly 3 hrs) live programming session and actively participated … Continue reading On Social Development
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.
Simon’s translation of the Drawing Object Trails p5.js tutorial into Processing. In the tutorial, Daniel Shiffman looked at how an object can store a history of positions thus allowing to render the object’s … Continue reading Drawing Object Trails in Processing
Simon’s version of Daniel Shiffman’s Minimum Spanning Tree tutorial: Simon translated it from JavaScript into Processing (Java), “a much more complex project than the circles with no overlap!” A minimum spanning … Continue reading Minimum Spanning Tree in Processing
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