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  • About Me
  • Building a Calibration UI | Case Studies | TouchDesigner
  • CocoLab 2019 | Distributed State Management Approaches
  • Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance | A Retrospective
  • Introduction to TouchDesigner | LDI 2017 | TouchDesigner
  • Introduction to TouchDesigner | LDI 2018 | TouchDesigner
  • Introduction to TouchDesigner | LDI 2019 | TouchDesigner
  • Make Some Noise| SF 2017 | TouchDesigner
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  • TouchDesigner GLSL Cheat Sheet
  • TouchDesigner Workshop Yale 2017
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  • Virtual Reality & Emerging Technologies | John Hopkins University | 2016
  • Workshops
    • TD Summit 2019 – External Python Libraries
    • TD Summit 2019 – Modular Architectures
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Projects
  • Teaching Resources
    • Past Projects
    • TouchDesigner
      • AME 394 | Compositional and Computational Principles for Media Arts
        • Project 1
        • Op Snippets 2
        • Project 2
        • Op Snippets 3
        • Project 3
        • Project 4
        • Final Proposal
        • Final Project
      • Python in TouchDesigner
      • THP 494 & 598 | Generative Media for Live Performance
      • TouchDesigner | Common Operations Cheat Sheet
      • TouchDesigner | Keyboard Shortcuts
      • TouchDesigner General Concept Exploration
    • Isadora
    • Taxonomy of Media Installations
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    • USNH 2010
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Archives

• Same Blog New Look
• TouchDesigner | The Big Badass Lister | Part 3/3
• TouchDesigner | The Big Badass Lister | Part 2/3
• TouchDesigner | The Big Badass Lister | Part 1/3
• TouchDesigner | SOPs and Stamps
• TouchDesigner | Instancing Examples
• Following Along | TouchDesigner Audio Visualization Tutorial
• A Conversation with Robert Erdös
• A Conversation with Cocolab
• TouchDesigner | The Object CHOP
• TouchDesigner | Reflection and Refraction
• TouchDesigner | Packing up a Tox for Distribution
• TouchDesigner | TD Summit 2019 | External Python Libraries
• TouchDesigner | TD Summit 2019 | Modular Architectures
• 7.29.19 | Daily Art
• 7.28.19 | Daily Art
• TouchDesigner | GitHub and External Toxes
• TouchDesigner | Python and the Subprocess Module
• TouchDesigner | Stoner Tricks
• TouchDesigner | Start-up Configuration with Environment Variables
• TouchDesigner | Previs for Moving Lights
• TouchDesigner | Virtual MIDI Devices
• Guest Post with Elburz Sorkhabi | Two TouchDesigner Beginner Tricks
• TouchDesigner | New Features | Bindings
• TouchDesigner | Case Study | Custom Parameters and Cues
• TouchDesigner | Hue Control
• TouchDesigner | Save External
• TouchDesigner | Reusable Code Segmentation with Python
• TouchDesigner | Switch Statements in Python
• TouchDesigner | Delay Scripts
• TouchDesigner | Finding Dominant Color
• TouchDesigner | Multi-Threading
• TouchDesigner | Process Management
• TouchDesigner | Deferred Lighting – Cone Lights
• TouchDesigner | Deferred Lighting – Point Lights
• TouchDesigner | Working Styles | Git
• TouchDesigner | Email | Project Perspective
• TouchDesigner | Email | Volumetric Lights
• presets and cue building – a beyond basics checklist | TouchDesigner 099
• GLSL TD Tutorials in TouchDesigner
• The Book of Shaders in TouchDesigner
• Daily Art
• presets and cue building | TouchDesigner 099
• Python in TouchDesigner | The Channel Class | TouchDesigner
• textport for performance | TouchDesiger
• Daily Art
• scriptDAT | Tips and Tricks | TouchDesigner
• glsl noise
• vertx shaders
• daily art
• daily art
• daily art
• daily art
• Daily Art
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | Working with a Kinect
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | Your First VJ Deck
• Daily Art
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | Intro to Instancing
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | Realtime Rendering
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | SOPs
• TouchDesigner @ Yale | Your First Movie Player
• Daily Art
• Working with Midi Devices | TouchDesigner
• Let’s Talk TouchDesigner | Episode 2
• Daily Art
• Maintaining Perspective with Multiple Cameras | TouchDesigner
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Building a Calibration UI | Reusing Palette Components – The Stoner | TouchDesigner
• Building a Calibration UI | Software Architecture | TouchDesigner
• Exploring Examples from the Forum| TouchDesigner
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Python in TouchDesigner | Extensions | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Modules | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Dictionary Loops | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | For Loop | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Op Class | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Executes | TouchDesigner
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
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• Daily Art
• Daily Art
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• Daily Art
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• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• Daily Art
• The Mysterious SVG TOP | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Intro to Functions | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Data Structures – Dictionaries | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Data Structures – Lists | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Logic | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Writing Python References | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Variables | TouchDesigner
• Python in TouchDesigner | Printing | TouchDesigner
• InTouchSF | Broadcast News Plate | TouchDesigner
• Advanced Instancing | Puzzle Pieces | TouchDesigner
• Advanced Instancing | Instancing with the Animation COMP | TouchDesigner
• Advanced Instancing | Pixel Mapping Geometry | TouchDesigner
• TouchDesigner | FB HelpGroup | Presets
• TouchDesigner | Email | Cube Faces
• TouchDesigner | Email | Shrink Instance
• TouchDesigner | Email | Realtime DNA
• TouchDesigner | Email | Level of Detail
• TouchDesigner | Understanding Extensions
• TouchDesigner | Modules as Reference Expressions
• TouchDesigner | Getting More out of the CHOP Execute DAT
• TouchDesigner | Make a Copy of that Table
• TouchDesigner | Drop Scripts
• TouchDesigner | Choosing a Directory
• THP 494 & 598 | The Timer CHOP | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Particles and the Animation COMP | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Reactive Particles | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 7 – Topography 2 | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 6 – Topography 1 | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 5 – Oscilloscope | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 4 – Simple Metering | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 3 – Audio Analysis | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 2 – Interface Building | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Audio Part 1 – Building a Backend | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Large Display Arrangement | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | The Select COMP | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Simple Live Set Up | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | The Window COMP | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Touch OSC – A Case Study | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Interprocess Communication | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Network Communication – Basics | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | The Table COMP | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Texture Instancing | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Simple Instancing | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Replicating Text TOPs | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Python Dictionaries | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Python Lists | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Generative Design – Shape and Noise | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Modules, Local Variables, and Storage | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Data Experiments | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Make it with Data | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Instancing – A Closer Look | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Playing with Feedback | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Image Selector – Instance Method | TouchDesigner
• THP 494 & 598 | Image Selector – Container Method | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Multi Process Communication | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Audio Analysis| TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Replicators | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Simple VJ Set-Up | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Perform Mode | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Hierarchy | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Radio Buttons | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | me.digits | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Open Viewer | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Interface Elements | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Storage | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Parameter Expressions | TouchDesigner
• AME 394 | Local Variables | TouchDesigner
• Understanding Referencing Part II | TouchDesigner
• Rendering | TouchDesigner
• Understanding Referencing | TouchDesigner
• Let’s Make this Table Data Move | TouchDesigner
• Geometric Landscapes | TouchDesigner
• Inspired by Rutt Etra | TouchDesigner
• Instant Instancing | TouchDesigner
• 2D Sliders | TouchDesigner
• Shuffling Words Around | Isadora
• Vertical Sliders Please | TouchDesigner
• OSC Remote Control | TouchDesigner
• Inside Wonder Dome | TouchDesigner
• TouchOSC | Serious Show Control
• TouchDesigner | Evaluate DAT Magic
• TouchDesigner | Container Display
• TouchDesigner | Replicators, and Buttons, and Tables, oh my
• TouchDesigner | These are the DATs you’ve been looking for
• TouchDesigner | 3D solutions for a 2D world
• TouchDesigner | Animation Comp
• Interface Building – Execute DATs | TouchDesigner
• Multiple Windows | TouchDesigner
• TouchDesigner | Reuse that Component as a .tox
• AutoCAD and Dynamic Blocks for Media Designers
• TouchDesigner | Import from a System Folder
• WonderDome | Workshop Weekend 1
• TouchDesigner | Buttons for Interfaces
• Vesturport’s Woyzeck | A Case Study
• Sending and Receiving OSC Values with TouchDesigner
• Sending and Receiving TouchOSC Values in Isadora
• Cue Building for Non-Linear Productions
• Custom Quartz Compositions in Isadora
• Compound Time
• Book Keeping
• Escher Image and Animation Research
• More than Meets the Eye
• TouchDesigner Concepts for Projection Mapping
• Live Camera as Mask | TouchDesigner
• The Feedback TOP | TouchDesigner
• Visualizing OSC Data | TouchDesigner
• Understanding Accelerometer Data | Isadora
• Lessons from the Road
• House of Escher | Media Design
• Isadora | Button Basics
• A Variety of Approaches | Lessons from Grad School
• Isadora | Slider Basics
• Media Design | Building Projection Mapping
• Isadora | Live-Camera Input as a Mask
• Isadora | Network Control
• TouchDesigner | Sculpture
• TouchDesigner | The Container, Control, and Final Ouput
• TouchDesigner | The Individual Composited Scene
• Soot and Spit | Particles in Isadora
• TouchDesigner | The Underlying Geometry
• TouchDesigner | Time Trigger
• Hardware and Software | Bootcamp Woes
• Media Design | Photo Styles Recreation
• Phase 2 | Halfway House
• Emerge | Commons
• Neuro | The De-objectifier
• Delicious Max 6 Tutorial 25: Cell Pump
• GIFs Galore
• Delicious Max/MSP Tutorial 4: Vocoder
• Delicious Max/MSP Tutorial 2: Step Sequencer
• Personal Essay
• Sound Trigger | MaxMSP
• Sparrow Song | Drawing with Light
• Delicious Max 6 Tutorial 23: Live for the Swarm
• Mapping and Melting
• Gelatin Projection
• Media Installations | Simple Sync
• Flip, Flop, Fail
• The Composite Effect
• Shades of White
• Race to the End
• What is a Media Designer
• Almost Open
• Auslander and Blau: Two Robots walked into a bar
• A Review of The Language of New Media
• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
• Bocon Tech
• Solo Performance Project
• curse your coreaudio
• Photo Shoot
• party
• leaving
• ironic young people
• Change