5-minute Kaleidoscope in TouchDesigner - TouchDesigner Tutorial 063

[@gorbigorbigorbi]

Came upon touchdesigner by pure chance, now I'm thrilled to learn it. Great tutor

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

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[@ozkr2988]

Try putting the tile top in a feedback loop, it makes some kind of fractal, pretty trippy!

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

Great tip, thanks for sharing! Feedback is a lot of fun to experiment with 🙂

[@eltalismandelafe7531]

Please, how to set the tile top in a feedback loop?

[@tdvr]

Thanks Elburz! This is an awesome technique!

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

Thanks, Gord! Glad you enjoyed it :) Can't wait to see you make an audio reactive version!

[@markus_knoedel]

Thanks. Great to see this small tips making big impact.

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

It's one of our favourite things about TouchDesigner! The fact that with a few nodes you can create some really beautiful things and start having fun creating immediately.

[@clearwavepro100]

Great Tutorial TX!

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)

[@celinahuynh1336]

exactly what I need to learn, thank you!

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

Our pleasure :)

[@sophialiarou4688]

this is great!

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hekuli]

This is great, thanks for sharing! Curious how you would go about it if you wanted to present a UI letting users choose 'number of divisions' with a single control? My first approach is to have many nested layers of Tile TOPs all going into a switch. Can it be done more simply?

[@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ]

Great question! There are actually two different approaches you can take to achieve this functionality. With just one Tile TOP, you can increase the “Passes” parameter on the Common page to get the effect you’re looking for. When this parameter is set to anything above 1, it duplicates the operation of the TOP the specified number of times, meaning it’ll act as though you’ve ran the texture through multiple Tile TOPs (all with the same settings, though). Another approach that allows you to “zoom” in and out more smoothly is to use a single Transform TOP. With the “Extend” parameter on the Tile page set to Repeat, you can then decrease the “Scale” parameter on the Transform page to generate tiles. Since the scale parameter is a floating point value, you can move smoothly between different scales rather than “jumping” between them. One downside to this approach is that the Transform TOP is missing the useful Overlap parameter that the Tile TOP has. Hope that helps!

[@hekuli]

@@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ very clever ideas. I will try those. Thanks!!!