<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">wondering what purpose the following serves (from: <span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia/">http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia/</a>):</span><br><br>"<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><h2 style="font-size: small;">Alice</h2><p><a linkindex="52" class="external" href="http://www.alice.org/" style="color: rgb(65, 100, 174); text-decoration:
none; white-space: nowrap;">Alice</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an authoring tool designed for people without programming experience to build interactive 3D worlds. The Stage 3 Research Group (Randy Pausch director) started the Alice project at the University of Virginia, and is continuing their work at Carnegie Mellon University's<a linkindex="53" class="external" href="http://www.alice.org/stage3/" style="color: rgb(65, 100, 174); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">Stage3 Research</a>.</p><p>Squeak-Alice brings the ideas and the ideals of Alice to Squeak, with the goal of introducing even more people to 3D graphics and allowing them to author in the medium. Wonderlands are the basic building blocks of Squeak-Alice and are interactive 3D worlds. To create a Wonderland, evaluate:</p><div class="code" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px; font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(65, 100,
174); width: 551px; text-align: left; white-space: pre;"><pre>Wonderland new.</pre></div><p>This creates a script editor, a control panel, and a window into the 3D world. From here you're ready to start building your world:</p><p><a linkindex="55" href="javascript:window.open('http://www.squeak.org:7779/Features/aliceLarge?action=SWMimeView');void%200;" style="color: rgb(65, 100, 174); text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="aliceSmall" src="/Features/aliceSmall/?action=SWMimeView" style="border: 0px none white;"></a></p><p>Screenshot of 3D Alice environment</p></span></span><br>"<br><br>not sure how much this (the alice info) helps someone looking into 3d graphics in squeak... <br><br>no idea what version(s) of squeak alice runs correctly on (i have not tried with 3.9-4.1)... but it seems like there would be something on the above page with some hints ... or just a simple spelling out that alice only works in squeak version
"something(s)" and here is the link to that download...<br><br> it just doesn't seem very gracious/helpful to have that "information" there - unless it actually showed something that works - and the quickest way to make it work.<br><br>i recall it worked (alice) - years ago... it worked in squeak. a long time ago. <br><br>if this is something that is still current in some way not obvious, i suppose it is great to have - but the 1 working link in the alice stuff seems to lead to java... the other goes nowhere, and the screenshot, well....<br><br>i know how it is to find a cool description that leads to, well..... yet, this is something right there in the heartland: squeak.org.<br><br><span>not being critical - just an observation. i think the alice project is pretty cool: just not sure how well it fits in with squeak - at least on <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia/">http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia/</a> .</span><br><br>2 cents<br><br><span>PS - stumbled on this while looking into squeak GUI stuff... <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1576">http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1576</a> , etc... which seems to have stopped around 2008 or so.... it seems searching for "GUI" at: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.squeak.org/search.html">http://www.squeak.org/search.html</a> would possibly lead to something more than the infamous and celebrated "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><b>0 hits</b></span></span> "... :) <br>again, just an observation. i know that there are piles of pages of how to do what i want to do in morphic spread across all manner of squeak releases... <br><br><br><br><br> </div><br>
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