Circle passing through a smaller square
Simon made a remix of the Numberphile video called “Round Peg in a Square Hole” (by Tadashi Tokieda) and worked out the albraic formula behind the trick.
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Simon’s Spirograph
Simon saw a way to draw epitrochoids (gear rolling outside another gear) and hypotrochoids (gear rolling inside another gear) on VSauce: two equal circles rolling around each other form a … Continue reading Simon’s Spirograph
Calculating Pi by weighing circle and square
This experiment has been inspired by Matt Parker and his Stand Up Math channel. As one of our Pi day activities, Simon attempted to calculate Pi by weighing a circle. … Continue reading Calculating Pi by weighing circle and square
Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
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).
SVG shapes
Simon spent his Sunday morning programming SVG (scalable vector graphics, a file format for static and dynamic vector images in XML) elements. The code (from w3schools) largely relies on coordinates, … Continue reading SVG shapes
Geeks out of the box 