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If you’re using Alice 2, I think it will be difficult to achieve exactly what the student wants. Because Alice 2 does not support polymorphism, it will be difficult to get much advantage from putting them in a list. You would only be able to use the built-in
movement methods and functions.
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<div>I think it might be better to create a few different movement actions that by themselves do not look random, but when used by 10 different objects at the same time looks like chaos. I have had students do this. Your student wants order out of the chaos,
which is more difficult, but I think it could be achieved this way. For example, one mouse can move forward 6, wait 1 second, move forward 3. Another mouse can move forward 7, wait 0.8 seconds, move forward 2. Then put all the moves in a do together block.</div>
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<div>Alice 3 may have more capability, but I haven’t used it yet.</div>
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<div>On Apr 1, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Eric Hillstrom <<a href="mailto:ehillstrom@durango.k12.co.us">ehillstrom@durango.k12.co.us</a>> wrote:</div>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal">Question:</p><p class="MsoNormal">I have taken a simple story with a medieval theme and am bringing it to life.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I want to have 10 mice move around in swarm/scurry fashion the world to make it look like they are protecting a castle. How do I do this? Should I make a list and somehow use a proximity function? How do I make it look random in nature
to simulate mice scurrying around?</p>
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