Squeak Alice is an implementation of the Alice 3D authoring tool (http://www.alice.org) in Squeak. With Squeak-Alice you can
build interactive 3D worlds, even if you don't know anything about 3D graphics. The Stage
3 Research Group (Randy Pausch director) started the Alice project at the
University of Virginia, and is continuing their work at Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~stage3. Squeak-Alice
brings the ideas and
the ideals of Alice to Squeak, with the goal of introducing even more people to 3D
graphics and allowing them to author in the medium.
The intention of the Alice project is to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. Worlds created in Alice can be viewed and interacted with inside of a standard web browser once the Alice plug-in has been installed.
Alice is primarily a scripting and prototyping environment for 3D object behavior, not a 3D modeler; this makes Alice much more like LOGO than AutoCAD. By writing simple scripts, Alice users can control object appearance and behavior, and while the scripts are executing, objects respond to user input via mouse and keyboard.
