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Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s p5.js tutorial on random circles with no overlap into Processing (Java). The project is about a “circle packing”-like algorithm. Circles are placed randomly in the canvas, but only … Continue reading Random Circles with No Overlap in Processing
Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Plinko game coding challenge from JavaScript and Matter.JS into Processing (Java) and Box2D: Simon adds that he didn’t actually do part 4 of the coding challenge, … Continue reading Plinko game translated into Processing (Java) and Box2D
One more thing I’d like to share from this weekend is Simon’s lecture comparing three Physics libraries: Box2D, Matter.JS and ToxicLibs. He partially borrowed the lecture from Daniel Shiffman, but … Continue reading Box2D, Matter.JS and ToxicLibs
Following along Daniel Shiffman’s Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge: extracting font path points from text in p5.js with p5.Font.textToPoints() and rendering the text as particles with steering behaviors that react to … Continue reading Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge
Simon came up with an idea to translate a physics visualization from the Codea app (using a language called Lua) into Processing (Java) by applying Box2D. The first two videos … Continue reading Simple Physics. Translating from Lua (the language in the Codea app) into Java
Simon’s take on the Minesweeper Coding Challenge. Here Simon suggests his way to customise the Minesweeper game: create a high score: Simon working on the customised version: Later he got … Continue reading Minesweeper
Simon translated part of the Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). In the first video below he explains the formulas for attraction and repulsion forces: … Continue reading Simon translated Attraction and Repulsion Forces Coding Challenge into Java
Had great fun last week playing with the code Simon wrote following along Daniel Shiffman’s RiTa.JS tutorial. The code generated words from the built-in RiTa lexicon, and that lexicon is … Continue reading RiTa.JS
The notes above are from a couple days ago when Simon was trying to explain to me, where the formula for calculating similarity s = 1/1+c comes from. He linked it … Continue reading Nearest Neighbour Coding Challenge. Euclidean Distance.
Simon translated the Fractal Spirograph Coding Challenge from Processing into JavaScript:
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
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