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Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Graphing 1D Perlin Noise tutorial into Processing (Java). The project involved combining perlin noise and sine wave: He also attempted to translate Perlin Noise Flow Field … Continue reading Perlin Noise Combined with Sine Wave Translation into Processing
Simon built a Polar to Cartesian converter (Simon’s own code). You can enter the radius in pixels and the angle in degrees, click “convert” and you get the coordinates in … Continue reading Polar to Cartesian converter (Simon’s own code)
Simon’s big project the last couple of days was about making a steering behaviors database, complete with a navigation menu (in Cloud9): He managed to finish the first two examples … Continue reading Steering Behaviors: flow field, dot product, scalar projection
Simon heard the word “pinball” and looked it up on Google (never played it himself). He then decided to write a pinball program in Processing (Java), but soon encountered a … Continue reading Pinball Dilemma. Simon’s own code.
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)
Simon created an engine that uses trigonometrical (polar coordinates) formulas to produce beautiful roses. He reproduced the code originally created by Daniel Shiffman from memory and searched for the formulas … Continue reading Polar Roses in JavaScript
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.
Since Simon has been using so much trigonometry in his programming lately, we decided to review some SOH-CAH-TOA during his regular math classes and did some Brilliant.org quizzes: Simon also enjoyed … Continue reading Math > Back to Brilliant.org to train Trigonometry
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).
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 showed me 3D trigonometrical functions (like tan(x) or cos(x*y*9^10) in his Solve calculator app and we were surprised at their incredible resemblance with forests and flower fields. I mean, is there anyone … Continue reading Forests and Flower Fields
Geeks out of the box 