About
About
TouchDesigner is a node based visual programming language for real-time interactive multimedia content, developed by the Toronto-based company Derivative. You can see it as a combination of Processing, After Effects and Cinema4D. However, the interface uses wires and other inputs to transfer information from one function to another in a logical progression. Visual programming is a type of programming language that lets humans describe processes using graphics instead of text-based metaphors.
Conclusion/reflection
TouchDesigner is a great and powerful tool to experiment with. I have to say, I haven't used it a lot during this project, because it is not really what I was looking for. TouchDesigner is a more visual programming software, whereas I focused more on text-based programming instead — for example processing.
Test 1.0 (circle)
A circle composed of lines which represents the audio spectrum of a song using TouchDesigner. The final result is an artwork which holds an entire song in one image.
Test 1.0 (stills)
CEDES
Molly
Knucks
Alpha House_Bando
Ricky Retro
Bad
Saints
Not About You
Test 2.0 horizontal (stills)
Saints
Not About You
Erik Satie
Gymnopédie No.1