Challenges

Featured Challenge:
#184 — Elastic Collisions

What happens when two circles collide in a p5.js canvas? In this video, I examine the math and implement idealized elastic collisions in a JavaScript physics simulation. This video supplements the Nature of Code book series in Chapter 6 which uses 3rd party physics libraries to handle collisions rather than a direct implementation.

jul 12, 2024

Elastic Collisions

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Pi

Happy Pi Day 2024! In this video, I attempt to create an Apollonian Gasket using the Descartes Circle Theorem and complex numbers. So many circles!

Apollonian Gasket

How do toothpicks approximate the value of pi? I'll show you by coding a simulation in p5.js!

Buffon's Needle

Happy Pi Day! How many delicious digits of Pi can you catch from the sky? In JavaScript!

Pi in the Sky Game

In this coding challenge, I use the Leibniz formula (aka infinite series) to approximate the digits of Pi and graph the convergence.

Leibniz Formula for Pi

In yet another “Pi Day” coding challenge, I attempt to generate a pdf “Book of Pi” with the first 10 million digits of Pi mapped to color. Processing (Java) is used for this project.

The Book of Pi