Challenges

In this challenge, I use my JavaScript neural network library and a genetic algorithm to train an agent to play Flappy Bird.

In this coding challenge, I use my neural network JavaScript library to create a "color predictor."

In this multi-part coding challenge, I implement a Quadtree data structure in JavaScript and visualize it with p5.js.

In this multi-part coding challenge, I code the sliding puzzle game 2048 in JavaScript using canvas and p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I use my Toy Neural Networks library to solve the XOR problem.

In this multi-part coding challenge, I attempt to create a simulation of the classic board game Snakes & Ladders (also known as Chutes and Ladders).

The artist BeesandBombs makes amazing algorithmic looping GIFs! Here's my attempt to recreate one of my favorite GIFs in JavaScript with p5.js and the WEBGL renderer.

In this coding challenge, I attempt to code Conway’s Game of Life cellular automata simulation in JavaScript using the p5.js library.

In this multi-part challenge, I implement two possible solutions to Golan Levin's Circle Morphing challenge.

In this coding challenge, I explore the concept of a simple particle system and attempt to create a smoke effect with the p5.js library.

In this coding challenge, I attempt to create a version of the classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program in JavaScript using p5.js. This coding challenge is inspired by the book 10 PRINT.

In this coding challenge, I make a "Wikipedia web crawler" in JavaScript. It randomly crawls from topic to topic on Wikipedia using the API and the p5.js library.

In this coding challenge, I attempt to program a clock in HTML5 canvas with the p5.js library.

In this challenge, I attempt to code the classic game Minesweeper in JavaScript with the p5.js library.

In this coding challenge, I explore the concept of recursion to create fractal patterns in JavaScript HTML5 canvas with the p5.js library.

In this multi-part coding challenge, I create a movie recommendation engine using the "nearest neighbor" algorithm.

In this multi-part coding challenge, I create a system where autonomous steering agents evolve the behavior of eating food and avoiding poison.

In this two part challenge, I implement the Breadth-First Search algorithm in JavaScript. My demo application is "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" (finding the closest relationship between Kevin Bacon and another actor).

In this video, I use the p5.js library to create a web-based countdown timer. I discuss the native JavaScript method setInterval() and well as p5’s millis().

This multi-part coding challenge is part of the first week of my course: "Intelligence and Learning." Here I attempt to implement a classic data structure: The Binary Search Tree.

I love all things random and chance so why not make a Plink simulation with the matter.js physics engine and p5.js!

Inspired by Everest Pipkin’s Moth Generator, I use trigonometry and perlin noise to procedurally generate butterfly wing designs with p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I look at extracting font path points from text in p5.js with p5.Font.textToPoints(). I render the text as particles with steering behaviors that react to the mouse.

In this bonus super-sized coding challenge, I work through visualizing Islamic Star Patterns in p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I attempt to create rose (rhodonea) curves using trigonometry function and polar coordinates.

In this coding challenge, I simulate a "random walk" with vectors in p5.js, varying the distance of each step size. This is known as a "Lévy Flight" (named after french mathematician Paul Lévy.)

In this coding challenge, I simulate a "random walk" with the p5.js library. This video is part of the course Nature of Code at ITP, Tisch, NYU.

In this multi-part coding challenge, I attempt an implementation of the A* Pathfinding Algorithm to find the optimal path between two points in a 2D grid.

In this Coding Challenge, I discuss how to use the newly released White House social media data to make simple data visualization example with p5.js.

In this two part coding challenge, I use the p5.js library to create my own version of the classic Atari video game Asteroids!

Sure, flappy bird is fun, but what happens if we take away the button and control the bird with clapping! Yes, it's time for Clappy Bird!

In this coding challenge, I make a Mad Libs web application using p5.js and tabletop.js (a JavaScript library for connecting to google sheet data.)

The Diastic technique is a methodology and algorithm for generating found poetry from a source text. It was developed and used by poet / artist Jackson Mac Low. In this challenge, I generate diastic poems using p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I simulate a blob-like shape with wobbly edges using beginShape(), endShape(), polar coordinates, and perlin noise.

In Part 1 of this multi-part coding challenge, I introduce the classic computer science problem of the Traveling Salesperson (TSP) and discuss the pitfalls with a brute force solution. In Part 2, I discuss Lexicographic Ordering and demonstrate one algorithm to iterate over all the permutations of an array. In Part 3, I apply this algorithm to a brute-force solution of the TSP problem. Every single route permutation is checked one by one. In Part 4, I attempt to create a solution to the TSP problem with a genetic algorithm, and then I add a “crossover” algorithm in Part 5.

In this coding challenge, I implement a "Poisson-disc Sampling" algorithm to evenly (but randomly) distribute a set of seed points throughout a canvas. The algorithm is implemented in JavaScript using p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I explore the generative algorithm "Diffusion-Limited Aggregation". The pattern is generated from random walkers clustering around a seed (or set of seed) point(s).

It's time to attempt to build a Flappy Bird clone in JavaScript with the p5.js!

In this coding challenge, I continue one of my favorite subjects: Algorithmic botany! This video covers the subject of Phyllotaxis, what it is and how it can be used to generate sunflower-like patterns inspired by nature.

In this coding challenge, I implement a "smart rockets" algorithm (based on a simulation by Jer Thorp).

In this 4th of July themed coding challenge, I build an HTML5 canvas fireworks simulation from scratch using the p5.js JavaScript library. I also show how to use Processing to create 3D Fireworks.

In this coding challenge, I use Perlin noise to create a two-dimensional flow field with the p5.js library.

In this coding challenge, I show you how to make 2D supershapes in p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I program from scratch the Mandelbrot set with p5.js

In this coding challenge, I’m going to use superformulas to create a superellipse in p5.js. This is part 1 of a multi-part series on superformulas, superellipses and supershapes.

More algorithmic botany! Another way to generate a fractal tree is to consider every part of the tree an object, so that we can apply forces and attributes to all the branches and leaves and more!

In this coding challenge, I'm building on top of the Space Colonization video and creating a 3D Fractal Tree, using the same algorithm, in Processing.

In this third installment of my series on algorithmic botany, I discuss L-systems and how they can be used to generate trees and other fractal patterns in p5.js.

In this coding challenge, I'm using the space colonization algorithm to make a tree generator. This is the 4th part of my algorithmic botany series.

In this coding challenge, I'm implement fractal trees with recursion in p5.js. This is the first part of a series on algorithmic botany.