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Over he past few days, Simon has been busy reading Daniel Shiffman’s first book Learning Processing. He watches the video tutorials corresponding to the chapters in the book and completes … Continue reading Reading the Learning Processing Book
Simon has written a code about using Polar Distribution to create clusters in p5.js (JavaScript). The code is available online at: https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/Sy1CX71xZ The little particles are attracted to one another but don’t … Continue reading Polar Distribution to create clusters
Simon created an engine that uses trigonometrical (polar coordinates) formulas to produce beautiful roses. He reproduced the code originally created by Daniel Shiffman from memory and searched for the formulas … Continue reading Polar Roses in JavaScript
Changing the colours inside an image: Matrix to change the contrast of an image. Here Simon explains how this method works: And here he attempted to incorporate the matrices … Continue reading Image Processing in Java
Simon wrote a nice short program in Processing (Java) to make snapshots. To make sure the files are not overwritten when the program runs again I need to … Continue reading Photo Booth Project (Simon’s own code)
During math lesson today, Simon’s teacher Sven pointed out that Simon seems to be looking at math problems with programmer’s eyes. Once he is presented with a new problem (in … Continue reading Digging deep
Another fun chemistry workshop today with John Maas: solubility of salts, metal dissolving in acid and burning like a star, and other interesting lab tests and the theory behind them. The … Continue reading Salts and Metals
In today’s project (partly based upon Daniel Shiffman’s Diffusion-Limited Aggregation Coding Challenge), Simon attempted to combine the generative algorithm “Diffusion-Limited Aggregation” (DLA) and an IQ Puzzler game. As DLA visual pattern is … Continue reading Random Walker Puzzler. Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (Simon’s own code)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Simon ventured upon a serious quest – he translated Daniel Shiffman’s multi-part Traveling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks … Continue reading Simon translated Travelling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java)
Teaching his little sis to read has become a regular thing
Math on Friday:
Today it has been exactly one year since we chose homeschooling and moved to Antwerp from Amsterdam, where homeschooling was not a legal option. It feels good to see Simon … Continue reading It’s been a year
Geeks out of the box 