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Simon’s full-screen take on Flocking, based on Chapter 6 from The Nature of Code (Autonomous Agents). The code comes from Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial Combining Behaviors: Flocking. In Simon’s words, Autonomous … Continue reading Autonomous Agents. Steering Behaviors. Flocking.
Yesterday Simon spent the whole day studying the concept of Cellular Automaton (CA), a discrete model of a system of “cell” objects used in physics, math and theoretical biology. He … Continue reading Cellular Automata in Arduino
Someone has been very much into Physics here, devouring Khan Academy‘s courses on . Even switched to Physics during math class this morning (luckily, Simon’s math tutor also teaches high … Continue reading Back to Physics: Displacement, Velocity and Time, Acceleration
Simon recorded a series of “tutorials” based upon what he learned about springs and spring force from Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code book, Chapter 3 Oscillation and corresponding videos.
This is a beautiful “lecture” that Simon in his pajamas, chocolate paste adorning is face, game me Friday morning. He spoke about pendulum force, a force he was about to apply … Continue reading Pendulum Force
This morning Simon attempted to make a more difficult translation in the Codea app of an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. It concerned the Gravitational Attraction example … Continue reading Translating examples from The Nature of Code into Lua (Codea)
Playing with examples from Chapter 3 of The Nature of Code, Oscillation, covering trigonometry and connecting it to forces. The examples included simple harmonic motion, angular velocity and waves, as … Continue reading Playing with examples on Forces and Oscillation from The Nature of Code
Another translation involving the Codea app, only this time Simon decided to translate an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. The example comes from … Continue reading The Nature of Code Forces example translated into Lua
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
In this project Simon combined two exercises and one example from Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code book, Chapter 5 – Physic Libraries. The specific physics library used here is Box2D. … Continue reading MotorAttractor with Box2D in Processing (Java)
The next exciting step in writing his own code about spring force: Simon actually created an interface to allow anyone to build his own shape made of springs and particles! Simon … Continue reading Spring Animation Tool (Simon’s own code)
Simon used Chapter 3 (Oscillation) of Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code as the theoretical basis for creating his own code. First, he played around with what he calls “soft springs” – … Continue reading Soft Springs (Simon’s own code)
Geeks out of the box 