[Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Tue May 8 23:10:23 PDT 2007


Ok, here is a eToy blob morph developed in the OLPC image

Karl

Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi Karl --
>
> Please send us this Etoy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> --------------
>
> At 01:42 PM 5/8/2007, karl wrote:
>> subbukk wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:03 pm, Jerome Peace wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a ear to ear grin across my face as I read
>>>> your daughters comments.
>>>>
>>> It is so refreshing to look at the world through kids' eyes. For 
>>> instance, she called a two vertex Mixed a 'rubber band'. Well, so it 
>>> is! Mixed is really fun to play with.
>>>
>>>
>>>> The enhancements I made to polygons that lead up to
>>>> Mixed Morphs would work in 3.8.
>>>>
>>> I filed in the cs into SqueakPlugin image and got Mixed morph in 
>>> objects. I didnt use it extensively, but all basic operations seemed 
>>> to work fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I want to see what kids would do if let loose with
>>>> these things.
>>>>
>>> I wonder if it is possible to manipulate vertices through Morphic 
>>> Viewer? Then kids could create their own Blobs, model collisions of 
>>> squishy objects and so on.
>> I did that in the OLPC image just a few days ago but it seems the 
>> vertices option has disappeared !?
>> There have been lots of stuff happening to the OLPC image lately so I 
>> guess it's just a temporary outage.
>> Anyway, I made a blob morph that worked just like the one in the 
>> image with just a few tiles of etoy. It was a fun experiment.
>>
>> Karl
>
>

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