Field guide · Editions
Editions
Field Assembly grows the way a manual grows, in editions rather than releases. Each edition adds observations, plates, and materials.
A manual improves in editions. So does this.
Software ships releases, dated and quickly forgotten. A reference work grows differently. It gains a chapter, corrects a plate, adds a material, sharpens an illustration, and the whole becomes more valuable without becoming larger in the ways that tire a reader. Field Assembly grows that way. Each edition gathers what is new since the last, and the framework below is deliberately plain, because the point is accumulation over time, not announcements.
The first edition.
Establishes the form: a homepage that introduces the subject, the Real Estate Developer drawn in full on the Anatomy page, six plates in the archive, all twelve materials written, and the first six observations.
- Home
- Anatomy plate
- 6 plates
- 12 materials
- 6 observations
Filling out the library.
The next edition widens the recurring parts and deepens the archive, with better drawings throughout.
- New plates
- New observations
- Improved illustrations
Further plates and materials.
More of the same discipline, as the work accumulates and the archive grows into something people return to.
- More plates
- More materials
- More observations