12.18.2025

A Look Inside My 'Incantations' Touch Designer Network

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While I'm documenting the internals of Touch Designer for those who might be interested, I thought I would show the network I threw toge...

Inside Look At My Touch Designer GLSL Workbench

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Here's an inside look at my GLSL pattern processing network developed under Touch Designer to process video clips. Touch Designer is a v...
12.16.2025

Fire Ritual - Offering Hands

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I processed some clips of fire offerings / fire prayers with multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL psyched...

Psychedelic Shaders - Nudes

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Here are a few full length nudes (9:16 aspect ratio) processed with multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL ...

Psychedelic Shaders - More Goddess Samples

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Here are a few more samples of multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL psychedelic pattern generators I'...
12.13.2025

Incantations

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Incantations is a new three channel video piece (10:00 run time) that makes use of lots of the processed video clips I've been building ...

VectMandala

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Recently, Eric Souther ( Philosophical Tools on Patreon) released his latest Touch Designer TOX network for video processing called "V...

Psychedelic Shaders - Dark Goddess

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Here are more samples of multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL psychedelic pattern generators.           

Psychedelic Shaders - Goddesses

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Here are more samples of multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL psychedelic pattern generators.

Psychedelic Shaders - More Examples With Complex Layering

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Here are samples of multi-layered compositing from several of the Touch Designer-based GLSL psychedelic pattern generators used in combinati...

Psychedelic Shaders - Introduction

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Another project I've been working on is the development of some GLSL shaders (in Touch Designer) with the help of Anthropic's Claude...

BIrdman Processing Via Touch Designer

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 Over the last few months, I've been working on a custom Touch Designer network inspired by the Dave Jones Frame Buffer (which I first w...
7.04.2025

Mayan Underworld Sequences

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Creating a series of variants for the Mayan Underworld sequence for my River Styx video piece. Using various custom tools in Touch Designer....

EchoFold experiments

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EchoFold is a new Touch Designer TOX processing network released by Eric Souther ( Philosophical Tools on Patreon) which is like a 4D frame...
6.26.2025

More PixaVex Samples - Figures Underwater

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More work samples exploring Eric Souther's ( Philosophical Tools  on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "Pix...

PixaVex x2 Network - more examples

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More work samples exploring Eric Souther's ( Philosophical Tools  on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "Pix...

PixaVex x2 Network

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More work samples exploring Eric Souther's ( Philosophical Tools  on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "Pix...
6.02.2025

PixaVex - Visit to Robotics Lab

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 Eric Souther ( Philosophical Tools on Patreon) just released a new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "PixaVex" - its ...
5.27.2025

Video Distortion FX - now with Sound FX

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 In my previous post from a few days ago, I mentioned that I wanted to add sound effects to the Touch Designer analog video distortion netwo...
5.19.2025

Video Distortion FX - retro video

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 I recently came across a FB Reel post by the artist VJ Kuru who does a lot of live performance work processing with his custom Touch Design...

Video Noise Distortion - retro video - a few more samples

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Here are a few more examples of processed footage using my retro analog video processing network described in my previous post : UTE Fire Da...
5.18.2025

Prayer Wheel Processing Using PhotoMosh Pro

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Another very interesting and powerful tool available on the Mac is PhotoMosh Pro (now called Mosh Pro ). While this is not a real time proce...
5.16.2025

Using the Color Mixer from Philosophical Tools

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Eric Souther ( Philosophical Tools on Patreon) has released a new Touch Designer TOX processing network based upon the 8 channel Color Mixe...

Flames Samples 2 - Re:Struktr Processing

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  from the Fire & Flames series

Flames Samples - Re:Struktr Processing

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  from the Fire & Flames series

Wind Chimes Samples - Re:Struktr Processing

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  from the Wind Chimes series

Swimming Sample - Re:Struktr Processing

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  from the Swimming series

Sinking Sample - Re:Struktr Processing

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  from the Sinking series

Floating Samples - Re:Struktr Processing

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       from the Floating series

Fire Dance Samples - Re:Struktr Processing

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     From the Fire Dance series

Return to posting after a long break...

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 It's not that I haven't been making stuff, but I've been unfocused in terms of posting stuff.  I've done a lot  more Prayer...
1.23.2025

Using a Touch Designer Networks: Pixelate

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  The Pixelate tool was originally developed by Eric Souther on his Patreon site Philosophical Tools. (Turn on audio!)
1.17.2025

At Work in the Studio

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  While working with the array of Signal Culture apps, one issue that emerges is that the apps do not directly support portrait mode aspect ...

Using Re:Struktr app - Prayer Wheels 2

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This new app from Signal Culture allows very interesting wave-form driven flicker-based transitions between two channels of video. In this e...
1.13.2025

Using Re:Struktr app: Prayer Wheels

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This new app from Signal Culture allows very interesting wave-form driven flicker-based transitions between two channels of video. Very powe...
1.11.2025

Using Re:Struktr app (con't.)

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Footage of UTE Fire Dance combined with reaction diffusion system patterns. This new app allows very interesting wave-form driven flicker-ba...
1.09.2025

Some more sample processing using Signal Culture's new app Re:Struktr -> flicker warning!

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  This new app allows very interesting wave-form driven flicker-based transitions between two channels of video. Very powerful. In this exam...

Sample processing using Signal Culture's new app Re:Struktr

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  This new app allows very interesting wave-form driven flicker-based transitions between two channels of video. Very powerful. In this exam...
11.24.2024

Spirit Bark - Processing Samples

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Here are some (.gif) samples of the range of video processing that I have been applying to footage of a 'Spirit Bark' assemblage scu...
11.05.2024

Chronos - a Touch Designer .tox project

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Here are two examples of a new Touch Designer processing network which is now available at Eric Souther’s ‘Philosophical Tools’ Patreon site...
10.25.2024

Audacity Processing - pt. 2

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Here are some sample processed frames using a Kali image (the final image below is the input source).

Audacity Processing

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Taking some time to play around with glitch processing via Audacity audio editor, importing .bmp, .jpg, and ,tif files (as raw data), manipu...
10.20.2024

Whirling Dervish

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 Here are a few samples of OBS processing of found footage of a dervish fire dance.
9.08.2024

8 Channel Colorizer by Eric Souther

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These examples show  a couple of the default processing options available in Eric Souther's just released 8 channel Colorizer with oscil...
9.01.2024

Phosphortron 4

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A related post - here is the same 'ghost bark' footage (from previous post below) processed thru Touch Designer using a custom-built...