The Secrets of Sums
The new favourite (Murderous) Math book is The Secrets of Sums by Kjartan Poskitt. It deals with simple arithmetic and Simon found it too easy when he first opened it, but then … Continue reading The Secrets of Sums
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Busy with Matrix Math
Simon enjoys the Matrices section of the Precalculus on Khan Academy, scoring 100 percent in the quizzes: And watching the 3 Blue 1 Brown channel:
Speed Programming. Rumikub. Simon’s Own Code.
Simon set the timer for himself for 10 to 15 minutes, programming parts of the Rumikub game in Java (Processing):
Simon turned 8!
For his 8th birthday, Simon made a present for himself in Node.js and spoke about his new year’s resolutions that mainly involve live streaming: Today, two days later, we actually … Continue reading Simon turned 8!
Fractal Dimensions
Simon is talking about various shapes having various number of dimensions, which, oddly enough, doesn’t have to be a whole number. Based on maths tutorials on 3Blue1Brown channel, that Simon … Continue reading Fractal Dimensions
Ways to create 4D noise
Simon comparing possibilities to create 4D noise in different computer languages:
Sound Wave Maths in Processing
Simon has created animations visualizing sound waves (Triangle, Sawtooth, Square and Sine waves) in Processing (Java), using wave functions. These are the functions he used for the Sawtooth, Square and … Continue reading Sound Wave Maths in Processing
Hero Game in Processing. Simon’s Own Code.
Simon has created a great new game in Processing: The Hero Game! It is somewhat like the good old Mario, except that Simon has no idea what Mario is and … Continue reading Hero Game in Processing. Simon’s Own Code.
Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
Simon has been studying various 2D collisions (via the p5.collide2D library and paulbourke.net), especially the Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision). He was so busy with this problem that he even put it down in chalk … Continue reading Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
Interactive Math Functions
Simon was reading about math functions on Wikipedia and came up with an idea to create an interactive math functions editor in JavaScript that would visualize (i.e. show the graphs … Continue reading Interactive Math Functions
Playing around with sine, cosine and radii
Simon playing around with sine, cosine and radii in Grapher:
Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
This weekend Simon told me he came up with this rule that if you take two denominators that make rational fractions when you divide one by those denominators and you … Continue reading Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
Geeks out of the box 