THE
NATURE
OF CODE
DANIEL SHIFFMAN
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Chapter Examples
Chapter 0. Randomness
Example 0.1: A Traditional Random Walk
Example 0.2: A Random-Number Distribution
Example 0.3: A Walker That Tends to Move to the Right
Example 0.4: A Gaussian Distribution
Example 0.5: An Accept-Reject Distribution
Example 0.6: A Perlin Noise Walker
Chapter 1. Vectors
Example 1.1: Bouncing Ball with No Vectors
Example 1.2: Bouncing Ball with Vectors!
Example 1.3: Vector Subtraction
Example 1.4: Multiplying a Vector
Example 1.5: Vector Magnitude
Example 1.6: Normalizing a Vector
Example 1.7: Motion 101 (Velocity)
Example 1.8: Motion 101 (Velocity and Constant Acceleration)
Example 1.9: Motion 101 (Velocity and Random Acceleration)
Example 1.10: Accelerating Toward the Mouse
Chapter 2. Forces
Example 2.1: Forces
Example 2.2: Forces Acting on Two Objects
Example 2.3: Gravity Scaled by Mass
Example 2.4: Including Friction
Example 2.5: Fluid Resistance
Example 2.6: Attraction
Example 2.7: Attraction with Many Movers
Example 2.8: Two-Body Attraction
Example 2.9: n Bodies
Chapter 3. Oscillation
Example 3.1: Angular Motion Using rotate()
Example 3.2: Forces with (Arbitrary) Angular Motion
Example 3.3: Pointing in the Direction of Motion
Example 3.4: Polar to Cartesian
Example 3.5: Simple Harmonic Motion I
Example 3.6: Simple Harmonic Motion II
Example 3.7: Oscillator Objects
Example 3.8: Static Wave
Example 3.9: The Wave
Example 3.10: A Spring Connection
Example 3.11: Swinging Pendulum
Chapter 4. Particle Systems
Example 4.1: A Single Particle
Example 4.2: An Array of Particles
Example 4.3: A Single Particle Emitter
Example 4.4: A System of Systems
Example 4.5: A Particle System with Inheritance and Polymorphism
Example 4.6: A Particle System with Forces
Example 4.7: A Particle System with a Repeller
Example 4.8: An Image-Texture Particle System
Example 4.9: Additive Blending
Chapter 5. Autonomous Agents
Example 5.1: Seeking a Target
Example 5.2: Arriving at a Target
Example 5.3: “Stay Within Walls” Steering Behavior
Example 5.4: Flow-Field Following
Example 5.5: Creating a Path Object
Example 5.6: Simple Path Following
Example 5.7: Path Made of Multiple Line Segments
Example 5.8: Path Following
Example 5.9: Separation
Example 5.10: Combining Steering Behaviors (Seek and Separate)
Example 5.11: Flocking
Example 5.12: Bin-Lattice Spatial Subdivision
Example 5.13: Quadtree
Example 5.14: Sin/Cos Lookup Table
Chapter 6. Physics Libraries
Example 6.1: Matter.js Default Render and Runner
Example 6.2: A Comfortable and Cozy p5.js Sketch That Needs a Little Matter.js
Example 6.3: Falling Boxes Hitting Boundaries
Example 6.4: Polygon Shapes
Example 6.5: Multiple Shapes on One Body
Example 6.6: Matter.js Pendulum
Example 6.7: Spinning Windmill
Example 6.8: MouseConstraint Demonstration
Example 6.9: Attraction with Matter.js
Example 6.10: Collision Events
Example 6.11: Simple Spring with Toxiclibs.js
Example 6.12: Soft Swinging Pendulum
Example 6.13: Soft-Body Character
Example 6.14: Cluster
Example 6.15: Attraction (and Repulsion) Behaviors
Chapter 7. Cellular Automata
Example 7.1: Wolfram Elementary Cellular Automata
Example 7.2: Game of Life
Example 7.3: Object-Oriented Game of Life
Chapter 8. Fractals
Example 8.1: Recursive Circles Once
Example 8.2: Recursive Circles Twice
Example 8.3: Recursive Circles Four Times
Example 8.4: The Cantor Set
Example 8.5: The Koch Curve
Example 8.6: A Recursive Tree
Example 8.7: A Stochastic Tree
Example 8.8: Simple L-system Sentence Generation
Example 8.9: An L-system
Chapter 9. Evolutionary Computing
Example 9.1: Genetic Algorithm for Evolving Shakespeare
Example 9.2: Smart Rockets
Example 9.3: Smarter Rockets
Example 9.4: Interactive Selection
Example 9.5: An Evolving Ecosystem
Chapter 10. Neural Networks
Example 10.1: The Perceptron
Example 10.2: Gesture Classifier
Chapter 11. Neuroevolution
Example 11.1: Flappy Bird Clone
Example 11.2: Flappy Bird with Neuroevolution
Example 11.3: Smart Rockets with Neuroevolution
Example 11.4: Dynamic Neuroevolutionary Steering
Example 11.5: A Bloop with Sensors
Example 11.6: A Neuroevolutionary Ecosystem
