alice-teacher resizing

Ella Glazer ella.glazer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 11:38:13 EDT 2011


Yes.  and I will make him do just that.
Thanks

Ella

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> The resize contracts the object toward its center point… Watch the resize
> from an overhead view… You will also notice that the tRex is really no
> longer on the ground...
>
> One way to deal with this would be to resize in a doTogether with a move
> down ½ the height a move forward 1/4  the depth of the t-rex… Using ½ would
> seem to be the intuitive amount, but the center point is not truly ½ the
> depth (because of the length of the tail). ¼ is not perfect either, but it
> is a close approximation, I think.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Later,
> Don Slater
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Ella Glazer wrote:
>
> > When one of my students resizes the trex to 1/2 size, the creature gets
> smaller but also moves back.  Why?  Can we stop this?
> >
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