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Over he past few days, Simon has been busy reading Daniel Shiffman’s first book Learning Processing. He watches the video tutorials corresponding to the chapters in the book and completes … Continue reading Reading the Learning Processing Book
Changing the colours inside an image: Matrix to change the contrast of an image. Here Simon explains how this method works: And here he attempted to incorporate the matrices … Continue reading Image Processing in Java
Simon wrote a nice short program in Processing (Java) to make snapshots. To make sure the files are not overwritten when the program runs again I need to … Continue reading Photo Booth Project (Simon’s own code)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Simon ventured upon a serious quest – he translated Daniel Shiffman’s multi-part Traveling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks … Continue reading Simon translated Travelling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java)
Simon wrote a Tetris program in Processing (Java) on Thursday afternoon. He has never played Tetris. He learned about the game from a Russian educative cartoon series Fixiki episode, where it … Continue reading Tetris (Simon’s own code)
Simon returned to his “old” code (something he wrote about a month ago) and fixed the collision detection in it. He called this “geometry free”collision detection because he doesn’t use any … Continue reading Geometry Free Collision Detection. Attractors.
Simon wanted to pretend like he is flying over an endless terrain ad completed this Terrain Generation with Perlin Noise in Processing Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman yesterday.
Today Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s tutorials to learn about drag force and how to apply it when building a spring simulation in p5.js. Simon wrote the formula for drag force … Continue reading Oscillation and Drag Force: Spring Project.
Our Kinect adapter has finally arrived! Simon had been waiting for about one and a half months and was extremely hyper to try out the code he had already written … Continue reading Microsoft Kinect (v2) in Processing using the Open Kinect for Processing library
On Thursday Simon was busy with writing his own code in Java. He called it “Path Following”. The project basically involved simulating different phenomena with a physics particle (having it … Continue reading Path Following (Simon’s own code). Applying restitution.
On Wednesday Simon went on with playing god (evolution simulation) and translated Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge from JavaScript to Java. The goal of the challenge is to … Continue reading Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors
Today Simon spent hours watching videos and reading Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code, concentrating on more complicated matters than ever: autonomous agents and evolution (genetic algorithms). In The … Continue reading Autonomous Agents and Genetic Algorithms
Geeks out of the box 