<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is interesting…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It turns out, what I also assumed was the front of the SpiderRobot’s head is oriented differently than the body of the spider robot. And it turns out, this has been true for a long time in Alice (I just tested a version of the robot from Alice 2.2, released in 2009)…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As often as this exercise and this model has been used, it is surprising that we have not caught this before this (at least, I do not remember it coming up before this)…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have attached a screen shot to illustrate. The image has two spider robots, and two axes, i have set the point of view of the first axes to the entire spiderrobot on the left, and I have set the point of view to the second axes to the head of the spider robot on the right.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for pointing this out…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alice Project</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="D26E6E57-EB42-49A4-B647-613B040B4ABE" height="464" width="943" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DCF246D3-CA0E-4524-AC67-F430520C76F1@wv.cc.cmu.edu" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 15, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Roger Crowe via alice-teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I've taught this lesson before but now an Alice object seems to be acting differently. In Alien Encounter the spider robot's head, which I thought the red visor was actually the front of, when told to <i class="">Turn to Face</i> the wheeledrobot, points the back of his head (opposite the red visor) to the wheeledrobot.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I ask the entire Spider robot to <i class="">Turn to face</i> the wheeled robot, the red visor and the body point to the wheeledrobot.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What am I missing here?</div></div><img src="http://t.sidekickopen16.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LCMTW63RPd65vwt0vVRs67n3LvrVvW8NWHmS1k1H6H0?si=6405451927781376&pi=0098319f-0cfb-4c05-9912-a450d4de70d5" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1" class=""></div>
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