4 Oct
2008
4 Oct
'08
12:35 a.m.
Sorry I've been away. I've been catching up on homework and trying to
put a preliminary design together. I should probably let this thread
die, but no doubt this subject will just come up again anyway.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
_From my experience with giving some workshops in this
area I believe
that a growing number of artists is looking for software that allows
them to build their own specific tools. They are not frightend to learn
certain algorithms and how to deal with technical issues as long as
these issues are "art related". They actually like thinking about things
like DSP algorithms for sound and video, but they don't want to think
about device drivers and freeing memory (too much).
I think this gets to the heart of the matter quite nicely. The goal is a
system where the programming is focused on the processing and the
synthesis, but a language that actually compiles to standalone
applications. Though I'm not aiming for it to be cross-platform (I don't
have the tools on any other platforms), I don't see why it couldn't be
made so.
At this point, I want to lay out the complete design, then decide what I
want to finish for the 0.1 release and get to work on it.
-- Darren