MixedMorph for kids

> [Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids
>
>
> Hi Subbu,
>
> There is a ear to ear grin across my face as I read
> your daughters comments.
>
> The enhancements I made to polygons that lead up to
> Mixed Morphs would work in 3.8.
>
> I don't know who is maintaining 3.8 or the squeak
> plugins. If they contact me I would be happy to assist
> getting my work backported.
>
> The basic code is on Bob's superswiki at:
> http://209.143.91.36/super/700
>
> I want to see what kids would do if let loose with
> these things.
>
> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jeorme Peace.
>  

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>>  [Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids
>>  subbukk subbukk at gmail.com
>>  Mon May 7 03:47:53 PDT 2007
>>  
>>  Hi,
>>  
>>  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?
>>  
>>  Regards .. Subbu
>>  
>>    
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> Jerome Peace wrote:
>> [Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids
>>
>>
>> Hi Subbu,
>>
>> There is a ear to ear grin across my face as I read
>> your daughters comments.
>>
>> The enhancements I made to polygons that lead up to
>> Mixed Morphs would work in 3.8.
>>
>> I don't know who is maintaining 3.8 or the squeak
>> plugins. If they contact me I would be happy to assist
>> getting my work backported.
>>
>> The basic code is on Bob's superswiki at: http://209.143.91.36/super/700
>>
>> I want to see what kids would do if let loose with
>> these things.
>>
>> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jeorme Peace.
>>  
>
> I like the mix of straight and smooth segments but is there a way to
> create the blue dots when I pull on the green triangles  ?
> I get only the yellow ones that make the soft curve.
>
> Karl

>
>
>>
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>>  
>>>  
>>>  [Squeakland] MixedMorph for kids
>>>  subbukk subbukk at gmail.com  Mon May 7 03:47:53 PDT 2007  
>>>  Hi,
>>>  
>>>  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?
>>>  
>>>  Regards .. Subbu
>>>  
>>>    
>> ***
>>
>>
>>
>>  
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>>
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>
>

>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
>>
>
>
>

> 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
>>>
>>> --------------
>>>
>>> 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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