How to produce png images on top of silhouettes? Any help is GREATLY appreciated! 🙏

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Hello!! Very beginner touch designer here :sweat_smile: –
Currently doing a project in which I want png files of different flowers to “grow” on top of a silhouette that the webcam detects.

I’m planning to detect silhouettes using Video Device In and Threshold to detect brighter areas.
Now, I’m just running into the problem of how I can produce png file images on top of these. Do I use a particle SOP? Or image instancing? Or are there any other easier ways of doing this?

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Would REALLY appreciate the help - thank you!

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lots of ways with different results. You could try a trace sop to get a general outline, and a sprinkle sop to fill it. You could also use a UV map multiplied against this threshold, and then further multiplied against some really sparse thresholded random noise

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Hey @drmbt! Thanks for this - what is the operation sequence to put 2D png files into a sprinkle sop? Is it straightforward?

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instancing. there are lots of good tutorials for this on youtube, stuff from Matthew Ragan, here on the forums etc. if you are not familiar with instancing

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@drmbt Will have a go on exploring that - thank you so much for the help!