[Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids

[Karl]

Alan Kay wrote:
> Thanks Karl --
>
> A nice simple fun Etoy!
>
> (We definitely have to make the poly control points bigger for the 
> OLPC screen.)
It's hard to tell on my hardware...
Send me one and I'll do it ASAP ;-)

Karl

> 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
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> Alan Kay wrote:
>>> Hi Karl --
>>>
>>> Please send us this Etoy.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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