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marcdownie
Announce: Field - a new digital art environment
Feb 17th, 2009, 4:57pm  
The OpenEnded Group would like to announce the first beta releases of Field, a new environment for making digital art and experimental code writing. Field is a deeply hybrid, Java-based platform for Mac OS X that integrates text based code practices with on-the-fly graphical elements and metaphors.

Extra special support for replacing the Processing development environment is included — Field lets you write code against the Processing core libraries and extensions directly. While Field's primary language is Python, we have proof of concept extensions to Field including as-needed compiled Java, JavaScript and Scala. It's a platform for experimenting with ways of making things and we boldly claim that, for some uses, Field is a better Processing than Processing.

Initiated at the MIT Media Lab and developed "in house" for the last few years, Field has been a secret open source project for around a year. With these beta releases we're ready to get more people on board.

For more information, see http://openendedgroup.com/field/wiki/OverviewBanners2 and for Processing support: http://openendedgroup.com/field/wiki/SimpleProcessingTutorial
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PhiLho 
Re: Announce: Field - a new digital art environmen
Reply #1 - Feb 17th, 2009, 5:15pm  
Using Python and Java, highly portable languages, you manage to do mono-platform only software? A bit of a waste, but I suppose you use advanced features from Apple.

Anyway, I had a quick glance at the screenshots (I don't own a recent Mac) and they look good. Good luck for the success of your project!
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marcdownie
Re: Announce: Field - a new digital art environmen
Reply #2 - Feb 17th, 2009, 5:24pm  
A Windows or Linux port of Field is possible, maybe easy, perhaps even likely, but nobody involved in the project right now has the resources or the need to make it happen. Right now, having a single platform lets us move much faster.

Of course if anybody wants to be guided in on the PC port, contact us and it's yours.
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