An small "interactive art" project in Pharo, from a newbie

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> Hi all,
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> First thanks for Pharo. Is a really nice clean innovative environment I
> have just pointed it to some java teachers/users and they like the
> overall look and feel.
>
> Now some small context: I had taken a short seminar on interactive art.
> We have used vvvv[1] to make some small experiments and the idea was to
> use arduino with it, but being it windows only I though in exploring
> something easy to use and then I found Physical Etoys from Richo's team.
>
> [1] http://vvvv.org
> [2] http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/arduino/
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> We don't make any further work arduino, but the essence of the seminar
> was overlapping meanings to create new meanings. So my idea is to make
> some images appear and vanish slowly after a while and also put some
> microblogging flux of information.
>
> I started with etoys, but after seeing that the tile language will not
> give me the proper expressiveness to create this project I have "go
> down" to Smalltalk using Pharo. I'm a total newbie but I have found some
> ways to load images (using SketchMorph). Now I want to make them vanish
> slowly and also load the microblogging stream (from Twitter and
> Identica, containing an special hashtag).
>
> This is supposed to be a small week project but is taking longer. I have
> asked in the Squeakland and SqueakNewbies mailing list and I got an
> answer from the etoys perspective but is not what I need so any pointer
> to the proper documentation will be appreciated (hopefully on Sunday :-P)
>
> Meanwhile I will keep reading the Pharo by Example book trying to get
> the spirit of development process and waiting for your kindly help :),
> to hopefully get some prototype on Monday.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
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> Hi Stef,
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> El 24/04/11 04:01, Stéphane Ducasse escribió:
>> Thanks offray.
>>
>> I think that you should have a look at the work on ricardo moran and use the board from pharo.
>> Now this is working well.
>>
>> Stef
>
> I have already seen that (the Physical etoys project). Now I want to
> make something not related with physical computing, but just making some
> graphic appear at a random position vanish slowly and load a
> twitter/identica feed. Any pointer on where I can find this solution?
>
> Thanks
>
> Offray
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> you can create a Morph and change its color using the step method.
> and at the end delete it.
> It should be quite simple to do that and a good exercise for you to learn.
>
> Start with BorderedMorph new openInWorld.
>
> Stef
>
> On Apr 25, 2011, at 12:53 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
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>> Hi Stef,
>>
>> El 24/04/11 04:01, Stéphane Ducasse escribió:
>>> Thanks offray.
>>>
>>> I think that you should have a look at the work on ricardo moran and use the board from pharo.
>>> Now this is working well.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>
>> I have already seen that (the Physical etoys project). Now I want to
>> make something not related with physical computing, but just making some
>> graphic appear at a random position vanish slowly and load a
>> twitter/identica feed. Any pointer on where I can find this solution?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Offray
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