Procedural Design
Further manipulating pointclouds, I utilized Agisoft Metashape software to create pointcloud data from nature videos.
After processing the data in Blender, I created a manipulatable environment that I could control with audioreactive effects.
I recreated this process in Touchdesigner, utilizing the pointcloud data from the initial processing in Agisoft to control point information that I could manipulate and make audioreactive.
TouchDesigner also has the ability to write different kinds of
GLSL shaders, allowing me to write vertex and fragment shaders in
Python. I manipulate texture based operators (TOPs), real-time
GPU-based compositing and image manipulation nodes to render
3d visuals, data visualizations, or mathematical equations. Touchdesigner includes a host of libraries that I use in addition to the scripts I create.
RayTK is a Raymarching library of Touchdesigner components that
allow me to create GLSL shaders in realtime and work with them
in larger nodebased networks rather than scripting it all
directly. RayTK functions similarly to Pyspace, another
Raymarching library that allows me to create objects, scenes and
patterns. These patterns can then be animated based on data
input to Touchdesigner like music.
I wanted to create a particle simulation with a procedurally modeled asset so I utilized Houdini to create a particle simulation. I then took that particle simulation's data- the Euler angles for orientation, particle size, color and using that information was able to recreate the same simulation inside of Blender by copying the point data over through Geometry Nodes. This process could be done with other Houdini simulation projects I work on, allowing for simulations to be edited and tweaked inside of Blender from Houdini.
