TouchDesigner Visual Experiment
Hand and body movements become changing contours and colors in real time. This personal interactive study connects camera input and visual output in TouchDesigner.
- Year
- 2024
- Team
- Individual
- Role
- Personal R&D: a TouchDesigner visual whose contours and colors change with movement in the camera feed.
- Tools
- TouchDesigner
Film
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Challenge
The output had to show clearly how the image responds to the camera input.
My part
- Connected camera input as a live visual source
- Separated body and hand contours through edge extraction
- Combined contours and color remapping into three output variations
- Set the original camera feed beside the three color outputs for comparison
Camera input into contours and color
Camera feed as live input
I fed the camera directly into TouchDesigner so body and hand movements appeared in the output in real time.
- TouchDesigner
- Camera Input
- Real-time
Edges and color rebuilt
I extracted brightness and edge information, then rebuilt the contours and color through the node network.
- Edge Extraction
- Contrast
- Node System
One input, three color variations
I made blue, red, and green outputs with different color mapping and contrast to compare how the same movement reads in each.
- Color Mapping
- Variation
- Visual Study
Comparing the input and its response
I compared the output with the original camera feed, following how body and hand movements translate into changing contours and color.
- Camera Input
- Real-time
- Prototype
Result
Completed a prototype connecting camera input, edge extraction, color remapping, and real-time output.
I reconstructed the camera input as blue, red, and green contour-based outputs. Each version shows the movement of the person and their hands through a different color treatment.