TouchDesigner is great for building interactive art projects with a variety of sensors. In this video, artist Lake Heckaman covers aspects of his workflow focused on interactivity, using different sensors at the same time, and using a beautiful particle emitter scene as an example.
Working with GitHub and TouchDesigner can be a real adventure – and what I hear most often is why and how. A bit ago I did a little write-up about working with git and Touch, but realize that’s still a bit intimidating for folks.
Something I hear often is the difficulty in doing TouchDesigner blob tracking. “It’s too slow!” or “the tracking isn’t working!” or “I don’t know how to use it!”.
We’ve all been in installations where you need to send textures between apps or process. It may be because of limitations of a process, maybe because we’re using different apps to do different processes.
