Hi everyone! I attached a photo of the symbolic map, and below is a link to Pinterest video.
There, as you can see, the video is made from these symbols.
I really need to make a similar video for my project. I have different symbols, and my 3D object is not a horse, like in the video. I can import my symbols in jpg, png, svg format, and also as text (part of the font). I tried to watch tutorials, understood some basics, but still nothing works. I asked for help from the gpt, but it lies half and confuses me even more. My experience in touchdesigner is about 3 days.
Please help, who understood my task, how to do this, what are the main steps? How difficult is it and what tutorials should I watch? I would like to do this in a weekâŠ
Hi @onra,
usually this is done by taking the luminance value of a pixelated image or video,and replacing each pixel with a texture based the source pixelâs luminance value.
These kind of images and videos can be grouped under the term ASCII Art and you should be able to find videos online showcasing the process of creating this in TouchDesigner.
Generally speaking there are 2 approaches to this as you can do this with a purely TOPs approach utilizing 3D Textures and a TimeMachine TOP, or with the other involving instancing and again either a 3D Texture or 2D Texture Array of glyphs.
For both techniques. make sure to learn the basics by checking our curriculum at
and
Hope this helps a bit
Markus
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Thank you!!