[Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Tue May 8 11:34:04 PDT 2007


  Subbu,

> My 6-year old's favorite object is the "MixedMorph" in Squeak 3.9 because of 
> the way it handles like putty. She uses it to create all kinds of shapes and 
> pictures. She misses it in Squeakland plugin image.
> 
> Will MixedMorph make it into the Plugin image?

  There was good discussion with Jerome about it, but I still have
"mixed" feeling toward including that to the Squeakland image (and the
OLPC image).  This is due to the amount of modification it makes and I
have not figure out what kind of side-effects it might have.  (Not
that it have a bug or something, but it is a big commitment to change
all polygons.)

  For your 6-years old, CurveMorph with a bit more control points
would do?

  For older kids, the OLPC version has Etoys scriptable polygons so
that they can actually write tile scripts to change the shape of a
polygon.  One time I tried to merge them together, but the effort
didn't go far enough.  That would be still nice to have...

-- Yoshiki


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