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Summary TMI is a tool for making basic color temperature adjustments on TOPs. It is written in GLSL. Instructions TMI features a color temperature slider (T), a magenta/green shift slider (M), and an intensity slider (I).
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Do you want to do area tracking without paying top dollars for a Kinect sensor? This little hack uses a USB IR Camera to do the trick. They are commonly used as surveillance cameras and you can purchase one for about $32 USD on Amazon!
Area Detection with Surveillance IR Cameras
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Feedback loops are a super interesting technique that can generate all kinds of amazing and sometimes unexpected outcomes. Among those unexpected results is the possibility to generate some really interesting reaction-diffusion patterns with the addition of just a few operators!
Reaction-Diffusion Feedback Effects in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
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Whether you’re a pro or just getting started on your developer journey, you’re going to have your share of ups and downs. As you conquer more and more challenges, you’ll build up your own list of resources and tools.
Free Developer Resources
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The new Netflix series about Andy Warhol has been exciting many artists about Andy's works and life. This is a great opportunity to be inspired by their work and create generative pieces inside of TouchDesigner.
Generative Andy Warhol in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
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This workshop is live and recorded, and will be made available on-demand a few days after its live date. Session 1 – 2 hours: Saturday 14th May 4pm UK, 5pm Berlin, 8am LA, 11am NYC Session 2 – 2 hours: Sunday 15th May 4pm UK, 5pm Berlin, 8am LA, 11am NYC Price is inclusive of both sessions Create i
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The new Netflix series about Andy Warhol has been exciting many artists about Andy's works and life. This is a great opportunity to be inspired by their work and create generative pieces inside of TouchDesigner.
Look into the Latest DAT Viewer
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In this tutorial, we'll go over how to take the shaders you create in Shader Park and render them into high-quality videos using TouchDesigner.
Shader Park Plugin for TouchDesigner + A Rendering Workflow
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Feedback loops are amazing yet always seem elusive for TouchDesigner artists. How do we make them? How do we control them? How did adding a single random operator create this amazing effect? Unless you understand the fundamental way feedback loops work in TouchDesigner, you'll always be guessing.
The Secret of Feedback Loops in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
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https://youtu.be/aeSX5KhGf5M This is an intermediate TouchDesigner tutorial that shows how to animate simple instanced SOPs via a vertex shader.
Butterflies: Animating Instanced SOPs with a Vertex Shader in TouchDesigner (Tutorial)
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It might sound like yet another “omg new features in the experimental build” post…but it just goes to show you how much new and powerful tools are coming down the pipeline. Not only are there totally new features, there are a lot of quality of life improvements to heavily used workflows.
New Power User Tricks in TouchDesigner
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Although the Timer CHOP is a commonly used operator that has a wide variety of applications in TouchDesigner, many beginners may have yet to dive into its more advanced functionality.
Driving Content with Parallel Timers in TouchDesigner -Tutorial
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One of the most exciting new features introduced in the latest experimental version of TouchDesigner is the native support of VST plugins. With so many plugins out there, there’s a vast amount of audio tools that can be experimented with, without having to use any external software!
How to install VSTs for TouchDesigner
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ATTRAKTORs DESIGNER Create, Design and Play Strange Attraktors in TouchDesigner After having shared two weeks ago Attraktors Creator, a .tox allowing creating and mix strange attractors here is now the news about Attraktors Designer. ATTRAKTORs DESIGNER is an application created with TouchDesigner.
ATTRAKTORS DESIGNER v0.7
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Manfred Mohr is one of the early pioneers of generative and algorithmic art, working with computer code to create art in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Manfred Mohr-style Generative Art in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
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The release of the 2021.38110 experimental build of TouchDesigner in December 2021 brought with it a lot of exciting new features and was the focus of many articles and videos. But the addition of new features didn’t stop there!
TouchDesigner Release Rundown: 2022.21460
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Cropping is such a vital part of texture processing. Especially when you're creating dynamic content it can be difficult to constantly figure out how to crop in tightly around an object.
Automatic TOP Cropping in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e3vcr_OAwY This is the fifth video I made with my friend Adrien Poels for our AV project ORÅGE. Visuals were all fully made in TD (but the "realtime" flag was turned off for the sake of recording, and we took advantage of Premiere pro to put them together).
ORÅGE - SUPERNOVA (Music vidéo - 2min30)
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Simple and easy way to have a Drop area to load video on demand. It blends to the new inputs and let in play only one movie file in per time.It does preload() and a the blend will happen only after preloading.
