[Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids

[Alan Kay]

Thanks Karl --

A nice simple fun Etoy!

(We definitely have to make the poly control points bigger for the 
OLPC screen.)

Cheers,

Alan

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At 11:10 PM 5/8/2007, karl wrote:
>Ok, here is a eToy blob morph developed in the OLPC image
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>Karl
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>Alan Kay wrote:
>>Hi Karl --
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>>Please send us this Etoy.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Alan
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>>At 01:42 PM 5/8/2007, karl wrote:
>>>subbukk wrote:
>>>>On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:03 pm, Jerome Peace wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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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