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TouchDesigner is a dynamic visual programming environment, and part of the joy of learning is the element of exploration, where we find techniques and components developed by others before us and alongside us that can help vault our designs into practice.
What's on Your Palette? Part 1: Color
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Take an introductory look at screen real estate, and how having ample screen space can significantly enhance your workflow and project outcomes.
Screen Real Estate in TouchDesigner
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Download the final Product of this Writeup on Patreon: The core aim of this article is to explain several paradigms and techniques that not only can be used to build a TOP Switcher but also offer a more general way of thinking when developing components, whether small or large.
This article is not about a TOP Switcher
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Tabula Rasa at Oodi Hi All, I am a finnish-american interaction, concept and experience designer and electronic musician, I lived in NYC for 20 years, taught masters thesis and interaction studios at Parsons Design School MFADT. I work currently from my native Helsinki Finland, 1952 Olympic Village
Tabula Rasa multisensory expression space for Autism Foundation Finland in Helsinki
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We're taking a look at the work of Daniel Molnar, also known as Function Store. Dan is an artist dedicated to creating interactive and immersive art, as well as designing unique tools for TouchDesigner users.
Function Store Tools
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This year’s TouchDesigner Event Berlin included a surprise announcement that took the TouchDesigner community by storm: there’s a new operator family coming to the program!
POPs: The New Operator Family in TouchDesigner
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How AI is Transforming Interactive Experiences with TouchDesigner Hi everyone, I'm Davide Carbone, a creative engineer at LivingSparks Studio .
Real-Time Magic: Integrating TouchDesigner and ONNX models
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In this post, we’ll explore what immersive art is, and how TouchDesigner can be utilized for this and other immersive experiences. To continue reading this post, click here.
What is Immersive Art with TouchDesigner?
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In the previous tutorials, we learned what is WebSocket and how to use this technology to send data from our smartphones to TouchDesigner. But in this post, we dive into the opposite way, where you'll learn how to create a patch to send data from TouchDesigner straight to the browser.
WebSocket Architecture: How to Send Data from TouchDesigner to cables.gl
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Realtime digital generative artwork, live audiovisual created in Touchdesigner and controlled by Bitwig Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOfaYqPK58&ab_channel=RyhorValadzko Build setup in Touchdesigner and controlling all visual by Bitwig Studio.
Ethereal Echo | Live Audiovisual with Bitwig
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Hello, I'm learning TouchDesigner (TD) since January 2024, did follow a course at SAT and tried by myself a few tutorials.
First blog post on TouchDesigner about Litte Planet
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Light reactive Visual Art I created aimated visual art changing its radius based on light detection. I integrated light detector connected with Arduino Uno into TouchDesigner.
Light reactive Visual Art
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Introducing Argos: Our state-of-the-art LiDAR-based tracking system developed in collaboration with Ofer Smilansky. Argos combines advanced LiDAR technology, machine learning, and predictive algorithms to accurately track individuals in large spaces.
Argos LiDAR based tracking system
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In this tutorial we will show how to integrate multiple WebSocket connections to use in interactive projects in TouchDesigner.
How To Manage Multiple WebSocket Connections in TouchDesigner
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In TouchDesigner, the integration of native operators with advanced scripting and shading languages significantly enhances its functionality.
How To Use Uniforms in the GLSL TOP in TouchDesigner
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Artificial intelligence is paving the way for promising explorations. There are thousands of creative AI tools, but we've made a list of some of the most interesting AI tools for immersive media projects, and how to use some of them with TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
AI Tools for Immersive Media Projects
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Hello everyone, We are back today with a new release of our TouchEngine for UE plugin. You can head over to GitHub and grab the latest release of the plugin and give it a try with our samples project. Don’t forget to update your TouchDesigner build to the latest available, 2023.11760.
The TouchEngine for UE plugin is now compatible with UE5.4.1
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"Don't shoot for the stars, we already know what's there. Shoot for the space in between because that's where the real mystery lies." (Vera Rubin, astronomer). DARK MATTER "The space in between" is an audiovisual project inspired by the Dark Matter theory studied by astronomer Vera Rubin.
DARK MATTER (The space in between) - A/V Performance & Installation
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One of the most popular and beginner-friendly techniques when you’re first diving into TouchDesigner is instancing. At its core, instancing lets you duplicate objects without bogging down your computer.