Hey TouchDesigner Community!
I'd like to let you know about an interactive project I built in TouchDesigner, along with a fun documentation video. I hope you enjoy it!
U.S. Mail Computer System Employee Training Program: Module 3 - Mailbox Explorer
What if the U.S. Postal Service ran on a bizarre, retro-futuristic operating system from an alternate reality? I decided to build it.
The "U.S. Mail Computer System: Mailbox Explorer" is a real interactive art installation powered by the fake tech company, NERKTEK. It explores the convergence of new and old technologies, alternative futures and pasts, urban archiving, and the hidden beauty of New York City street furniture.
This project started as an experiment with 3D scanned point clouds and gaussian splats of mailboxes in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC. From there it evolved into a fake operating system, a physical workstation for postal employees, and finally, this employee training video pulled directly from an alternate timeline.
All software shown on the NERKTEK I computer system is powered by TouchDesigner!