Outputting content in TouchDesigner

Outputting content in TouchDesigner

Why is outputting content from TouchDesigner hard? TouchDesigner is an interesting software. There aren’t many other tools like it. The amount of capabilities and flexibility make advanced users feel all-powerful while new/intermediate users might feel paralyzed or lost. When it comes to outputting your finished content from TouchDesigner to your displays, many of the issues…

Pixel Packing with TouchDesigner, openFrameworks, Processing

Pixel Packing with TouchDesigner, openFrameworks, Processing

What is pixel packing? There are many strange terms in interactive media and pixel packing probably takes the cake for me. Pixel packing is a technique for taking data values and transferring them into pixel values in an image or frame of a video. Imagine a switchboard of LEDs flickering as 0s and 1s…but turned…