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:
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

Karl wrote: Duh, double click on them does it.

Karl

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.

Regards .. Subbu

subbukk wrote: 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