http://elijah.mirecki.com/categories/mini-programs/ Recent content in Mini Programs on Sylvia Mirecki Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:24:30 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/gravity-simulator/ Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:24:30 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/gravity-simulator/ A while ago I made a physics simulator for projectile motion which would gravitate towards the ground. I decided to build off this idea and make a free space gravity simulator!!! To launch new planets, click and drag. When the planets collide, they will create a larger planet with a greater mass. The dynamics of this were done in a 3D perspective, so that is why planets grow very slowly in proportion to their mass build up (the mass is proportional to the cube root of the radius). http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/i-made-a-chrome-plugin/ Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:44:15 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/i-made-a-chrome-plugin/ So I am currently facilitating the hardware room at the UTM Hacks hackathon… Currently, everyone is settled down and hardware registration has been dead for a while, so I created a Chrome plugin! The functionality is to play elevator music whenever you are on a login page. In my opinion, this is arguably one of the best plugins ever written ;) Without further ado, here it is! http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/wave-superposition-simulator/ Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:35:45 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/wave-superposition-simulator/ Hello, blog. So tonight, I built a little wave superposition simulator! Check it out: Superposition simulator http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/little-physics-simulator/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:15:59 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/little-physics-simulator/ So tonight, I made a projectile motion simulator. Basically, just click and drag to launch objects. I made this project mainly to fiddle around with the HTML canvas element. Note: It does not work on mobile devices. http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simplify-all-the-fractions/ Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:25:04 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simplify-all-the-fractions/ Simplify 120546/54201 into it’s lowest terms. By using the normal “eyeball” method, this would basically impossible (or just very very painful) to calculate. However! Using Euclid’s Algorithm, it is actually very simple to figure out, even by hand. I liked the algorithm, so I wrote this little program to calculate it. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> // Euclid's recursive formula int euclid(int first, int second) { int remainder = first % second; printf("%d - %d * %d = %d\n", first, first / second, second, remainder); return remainder == 0 ? http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/how-to-bake-pi-with-one-cup-of-java/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 02:58:34 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/how-to-bake-pi-with-one-cup-of-java/ So I just watched a video on the calculation of Pi, and was intrigued to write my own little Pi calculator: public class pi { public static void main(String[] args) { if (args.length == 0) { System.out.println("Usage: pi <long series_length>"); return; } long series_length = Long.parseLong(args[0], 10); double pi = 0.0; for (long i = 0; i < series_length; i++) { pi += (i % 2 == 0 ? 1 : -1) / (double)(i*2 + 1); System.