Simon’s Codea Tutorials and the Arc-Tangent

A set of awesome Codea tutorials that Simon recorded for those who are just starting to program in Codea. Simon ported examples from Processing (java) into Codea (Lua): In the … Continue reading Simon’s Codea Tutorials and the Arc-Tangent

Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript

Simon tried to reconstruct Bit Invader game (from Codea.io) in JavaScript, but got stuck at a certain point when he was programming the enemy to recognize the hero and the … Continue reading Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation translated into Codea

Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Diffusion-limited Aggregation Coding Challenge into Codea. The coding challenge explores the generative algorithm “Diffusion-Limited Aggregation”, whose visual pattern is generated from random walkers clustering around a … Continue reading Diffusion-Limited Aggregation translated into Codea

Box2D into Codea, Java into Lua

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