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nathanprocks wrote:

monofonik wrote:

slinger wrote:

Amazingly awesome! 

thanks    I've got a new mod i'll put up in a few weeks which is even better... stay tuned!

What kind of stuff is in your new mod?

It's for learning about simulation. The stage has a resizable grid "environment" that the agents can interact with, ie reading and writing values at their location. Also, once a sprite type is defined, you can specify how many of them are in the simulation, essentially like a class / instance approach to Scratch.

Agents can query properties of other agents in neighbouring cells, and can breed and die. Some the example simulations I've created include: ant colony, predator / prey, virus outbreak, animals grazing.

I should have a beta version ready to go by next week, hopefully some demo videos too 

monofonik wrote:

Hi Scratchers,

I've developed a Scratch mod called Scribble that adds some new capabilities for creating generative art:

Shapes - a new block palette that contains blocks for drawing generic shapes (like circles and rectangles) as well as custom n-cornered shapes.

Transparency - the 'ghost' effect has been implemented for both the pen and the shape fill colours, allowing for transparent shapes and lines to be drawn.

Text - a palette of blocks that allows text to be rendered onto the Scratch stage.

It's based on the BYOB version of Scratch, so custom blocks and lists are available too. We're using it at the John Monash Science School in Melbourne Australia as part of their Emerging Technologies unit.

Here's a link to the project page - http://monofonik.github.com/scribble/

I'm not allowed to post images/links here yet, but check out the URL above for some samples or to download the program :-)

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