eeveeDec 3, 2019

i am doing an ADVENT CALENDAR
🎄 https://c.eev.ee/advent-2019/ 🎄

i intend to make and release one thing every single day until christmas!
no idea what they'll be, i'm making this up as i go. wish me luck!

(also stopping dev log for a bit! more explanation: https://patreon.com/posts/32045494)

Eevee's advent calendar 2019

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â‘  proof of concept was the doom text generator: https://c.eev.ee/doom-text-generator/
Doom Text Generator

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â‘¡ and yesterday i made a somewhat obtuse crossword: https://c.eev.ee/puzzles/the-nuclear-age.html
The Nuclear Age by Evelyn Woods

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â‘¢ today i bring you: an interactive visualization of the six trig functions, which imo makes them make way more sense than basically anything i've seen https://c.eev.ee/viz/trig-functions.html
Trigonometric function visualization

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@eevee oh gods thank fuck I always feel like I'm wasting everyone's time when I draw this up

Fun part: this also immediately proves all the pythagorean identities!

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@CoronaCoreanici WAIT DOES IT
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@eevee Yup! Drop cos to the x-axis where it belongs. Then look at ANY right triangle with the unit radius as one of its sides and tell me what you now know.
Dec 4, 2019 at 3:57amTwidere for Android
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@eevee (hint: tangent lines to circles are perpendicular to the radii they intersect.)
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@eevee side note: GODS do I ever fucking wish my actual students were this interested but the joy and curiosity and aesthetic appreciation of math have long since been beaten out of them :S
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@CoronaCoreanici yes i know i just made a thing that had to make use of this property 8)

i mean there are similar triangles everywhere and that would be enough to prove it, except i don't see a similar one for the x side?

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@eevee I'll draw you a thing when I get home!
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@eevee Here you go!