a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
The earthquake data visualization coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman went further than just a 2D map – it went 3D! Simon managed to complete the challenge, except for the very last … Continue reading 3D Earthquake Data Visualization Coding Challenge
Simon went on with the third and the fourth coding challenges by Daniel Shiffman on inverse kinematics in Processing (Java) this morning, producing a beautiful animation of two robotic hands … Continue reading Inverse Kinematics Continued (Fixed Point and Multiple)
On Saturday Simon was mainly busy with the Inverse Kinematics Coding Challenge: Simon watched two out of Daniel Shiffman’s four kinematics videos and studied forward inverse kinematics in Processing (Java) to create a … Continue reading Inverse Kinematics in Processing (Java)
In the two videos below Simon is talking about 2D transformations in Processing. Transformation functions in Processing (Java) make it easy to have objects in a sketch move, spin, and grow … Continue reading 2D Transformations in Processing (Java)
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
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
Simon built this awesome animation that looks and moves like a hammock on Sunday, a coding challenge on Daniel Shiffman’s channel. In this challenge Simon used the toxiclibs physics library to create … Continue reading 2D and 3D Cloth with ToxicLibs
On Tuesday, Simon was following another tutorial by Derek Banas, this time on UML Class Diagrams, and thought it would be fun to draw the diagrams in a new app … Continue reading UML Class Diagrams
Simon programmed this beautiful rainbow all by himself in Processing (Java). He went to http://clrs.cc/ (also a http://mrmrs.io/ project) to look for the hexadecimals and then used http://html-color-codes.info/ to translate the hexadecimals into … Continue reading Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
Simon has been studying Java Design Patterns with Derek Banas. Some he tries to build (videos below), some he gets stuck with, but the topic has kept him excited for … Continue reading Java Design Patterns
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
Simon was training to build console applications with Derek Banas’ tutorial on design patterns. At the end of the third video, Simon says yes to my question if the console app … Continue reading Console Application in Java
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