At 17:24 -0800 2/7/2000, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>Folks -
>
>Herewith the fruits of our first culling of contributions since 2.7.  Many thanks to Stefan for organizing most of these into compatible updates.  There are more to come, but here are the summaries so far...
>
>	- D
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>1844DavesBlobMorph -- David N. Smith & RAA, SM, SMA -- 17 January 2000
>The Blob was written by David N Smith.  It started out as a simple test of the CurveMorph and ended up as an oozing, pulsating, repulsive mess which will wander across your screen until killed.  Each instance has its own rate of oozing, so some are faster than others.  It's not good for anything.
>Try:
>	BlobMorph new openInWorld
>15 Jan 2000 by Bob Arning, a change so that the blob tries to be a color like the color under itself.
>16 Jan 2000 by David N Smith, added blob merging: if two blobs meet then one eats the other.
>18 Jan 2000
> by Sean McGrath, smother color changes.
>06 Feb 2000 by Stefan Matthias Aust, refactoring and support for duplication, dragging and translucent colors."

Thanks guys! I hadn't released the latest version, but everything seems to have been foreseen (and a bit more), except that I've found it useful to put this one line as the first line in #step so that blobs don't get lost for hours behind a pile of windows:

	self comeToFront.

Thanks,

Dave
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