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The next step after the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge was to turn the sphere into supershapes using Daniel Shiffman’s “superformula” in Processing (Java). The result resembled the supershapes Simon had programmed … Continue reading Supershapes
Simon completed the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman! In this challenge, he created a sphere in Processing (Java) using spherical coordinates and triangle strips. Simon had already tried doing this … Continue reading Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
We have purchased something Simon wanted to have for months already: new software to construct the craziest 3D-supershapes! The software is pretty old, developed by Australian programmer Paul Bourke long before … Continue reading Crazy Supershapes
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
Simon did another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman today, this time a short one called Phyllotaxis. You might be thinking, what in heaven’s name is Phyllotaxis? As it turned out, … Continue reading Where Botany meets Math and What is Cartesian vs Polar?
Today Simon tried the Spherical Geometry coding challenge from Daniel Shiffman’s awesome channel. It involved programming a globe in Processing (using Java), using trigonometrical equations with longitudes and latitudes. Here Simon … Continue reading Spherical Geometry coding challenge
Some other things Simon programmed this week were: A programming webpage in html Crazy multiple cursors in JavaScript Even crazier multiple sliders in JavaScript Here the multiple sliders are programmed … Continue reading You also need the sin and the cos for crazy multiple sliders
Thursday night Simon told me he really needed to draw “something about a circle”. We were having an evening walk at the local park so I gave him a stick … Continue reading The Supershape Formula
This is what Simon does quite a lot lately – giving prolonged math “lectures” to an imaginable audience or rather, as he confessed, to himself. He stares into the empty … Continue reading Simon’s Lectures
Geeks out of the box 