L-Systems
What sort of literature do you fancy in the evening? Simon’s downloaded the book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants tonight. Here Simon explained to me how L-systems and Cantor Set … Continue reading L-Systems
Tag: math
Triangle Numbers. Simon’s own code
Now this was pretty amazing! Simon’s new own code, that he so nonchalantly wrote while “having a break” from practicing recursive functions, generates “triangular numbers”. A triangular number or triangle number … Continue reading Triangle Numbers. Simon’s own code
Recursive Function: Sierpinski triangle
Simon followed Daniel Shiffman’s Fractal Recursion tutorial on how to write functions in Processing that call themselves (recursion) for the purpose of drawing fractals. Later he programmed a Sierpinski triangle from memory, … Continue reading Recursive Function: Sierpinski triangle
Math. Polynomials
From today’s math lesson. Simon has started polynomials and insisted upon expressing them as a graph:
Islamic Star Pattern
Simon made this beautiful interactive Islamic star pattern from Daniel Shiffman’s one hour long coding challenge he devoted to the refugees. The coding challenge is based on this paper about … Continue reading Islamic Star Pattern
Probabilities and Logarithms
What does Simon do when he is sick and free from having any lessons? Follow a course on probability theory and logarithms (which he watched four times), writing equations and … Continue reading Probabilities and Logarithms
Math > Back to Brilliant.org to train Trigonometry
Since Simon has been using so much trigonometry in his programming lately, we decided to review some SOH-CAH-TOA during his regular math classes and did some Brilliant.org quizzes: Simon also enjoyed … Continue reading Math > Back to Brilliant.org to train Trigonometry
Mapping Earthquake Data Coding Challenge
On Friday Simon finished another beautiful Daniel Shiffman coding challenge called Mapping Earthquake Data. The purpose of this coding challenge was to visualize earthquake data from the USGS website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/) by mapping … Continue reading Mapping Earthquake Data Coding Challenge
Supershapes
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
2D and 3D Cloth with ToxicLibs
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
Inequalities Machine 2.0
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Math vs Math
Yesterday Simon and I were doing some primary school math (Dutch 6th grade, Belgian 4th grade, on average two grades above Simon’s biological age). It’s something we regularly do to … Continue reading Math vs Math
Geeks out of the box 