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This is what Simon begged me to read to him tonight: The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman. Daniel Shiffman is Simon’s hero. Simon completely owns his knowledge of English, … Continue reading Mom, can you read me a story?
This is so exciting! Simon has written his first Java code completely on his own! It’s an animation of the Archimedean spiral (well, we only found out later that it’s actually called … Continue reading Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
Simon continued his lectures about transformations in Processing (Java). Processing has built-in functions that make it easy for you to have objects in a sketch move, spin, and grow or shrink: … Continue reading 2D and 3D Transformations in Processing (Java) Continued
The earthquake data visualization coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman went further than just a 2D map – it went 3D! Simon managed to complete the challenge, except for the very last … Continue reading 3D Earthquake Data Visualization Coding Challenge
Simon went on with the third and the fourth coding challenges by Daniel Shiffman on inverse kinematics in Processing (Java) this morning, producing a beautiful animation of two robotic hands … Continue reading Inverse Kinematics Continued (Fixed Point and Multiple)
On Saturday Simon was mainly busy with the Inverse Kinematics Coding Challenge: Simon watched two out of Daniel Shiffman’s four kinematics videos and studied forward inverse kinematics in Processing (Java) to create a … Continue reading Inverse Kinematics in Processing (Java)
In the two videos below Simon is talking about 2D transformations in Processing. Transformation functions in Processing (Java) make it easy to have objects in a sketch move, spin, and grow … Continue reading 2D Transformations in Processing (Java)
We spent yesterday under the beautiful fractal tree branches of all sorts. Simon followed a whole set of coding challenges by Daniel Shiffman in algorithmic botany featuring several ways of … Continue reading Fractal Trees 2.0
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
Simon programmed this beautiful rainbow all by himself in Processing (Java). He went to http://clrs.cc/ (also a http://mrmrs.io/ project) to look for the hexadecimals and then used http://html-color-codes.info/ to translate the hexadecimals into … Continue reading Somewhere Oover the Rainbow
This is another Daniel Shiffman coding challenge where Simon got stuck half way, after hours of building though. The project involved building a video camera program in Processing (Java) and having … Continue reading Computer Vision
Simon built his first Android app (in Java) this weekend. Now every time I turn my phone on I see this: The code comes from Processing for Android > Getting … Continue reading Simon’s first Android app
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