a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
This is Simon’s preferred way of learning math and physics: try to work out the formulas independently. This time it’s the collision formulas which he attempts to depict geometrically. You … Continue reading DIY: Derive It Yourself
In for a shower? Simon made a beautiful Cloud Simulation in Processing (Java). He wrote this code himself. This is the final version of the project: The whole project is … Continue reading Cloud Simulation. Simon’s Own Code.
In his recent Live Stream, Daniel Shiffman announced he would make a fidget spinner simulation in the near future. Inspired by this idea, Simon has jotted down some code for … Continue reading Thoughts on Fidget Spinner Simulation
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
Playing with examples from Chapter 3 of The Nature of Code, Oscillation, covering trigonometry and connecting it to forces. The examples included simple harmonic motion, angular velocity and waves, as … Continue reading Playing with examples on Forces and Oscillation from The Nature of Code
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.
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
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