a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Inspired by Matt Parker’s video about the uniquely shaped building at 20 Fenchurch Street in London, Simon was very excited to visit this address. In the video below, made on the … Continue reading The skyscraper that set things on fire
For Simon and me, this book (“Infinite Lives of Maisie Day” by Christopher Edge) has probably been one of our most profound experiences of the year. We read it together, … Continue reading The Maisie Day
We drew a line to mark how far the sea has pulled back between 17:30 and 21:00 o’clock. It’s amazing to observe the the Moon in action! We have read … Continue reading High and low tide
Simon learned this from the SingingBanana channel: In this video, Simon solves the famous Motorway Problem (or Steiner Problem) naturally, using soapy liquid. The problem is about four towns located … Continue reading Solving the Motorway Problem naturally
What shape can roll well, other than a circle (wheel)? Two circles, attached together according to a formula involving a square root of two! Simon made these “wobbly circles” inspired … Continue reading Wobbly Circles and the Center of Mass
Simon has decided to correct Newton’s second law:
Pajama Lecture on Quarks, Leptons and Bosons (and a little bit on the Graviton):
Simon is currently working on a “Matter.js textbook”, a set of tutorials on how to use Matter.js (a physics library) that he writes on GitHub. Simon writes everything himself, not … Continue reading Simon writing a Matter.js textbook
Simon made a particle system based on Daniel Shiffman’s latest live stream. Here is the link to Simon’s code on CodePen: https://codepen.io/simontiger/pen/OxvYYW?editors=0010 He also tweeted about it: #particletrain https://t.co/LDvVuWtQ6B pic.twitter.com/Mv0yJ64Jyh — … Continue reading Simon’s Particle Train
Simon hadn’t been writing in Python for months but seems to be quite fluent still, here using the Python space in Processing for the first time:
This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized
Geeks out of the box 