VectMandala

Recently, Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) released his latest Touch Designer TOX network for video processing called "VectMandala" - here is a sample of something I generated using it: 

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EchoFold experiments

EchoFold is a new Touch Designer TOX processing network released by Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) which is like a 4D frame buffer on DMT. The abundance of controls available for modifying the spatial geometry and temporal stream allow for lots of creative experimentation and surprises. Also, the TOX provides a wide supplement of CV (Control Voltage) inputs as well.

Here are several examples of the TD network in operation:

More PixaVex Samples - Figures Underwater

More work samples exploring Eric Souther's (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "PixaVex". (Several samples below utilize two PixaVex TOXs in the processing network - one providing the wavefield, the other creating surface texture variants on the figures via modified Rutt-Etra like extrusion.)

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PixaVex x2 Network - more examples

More work samples exploring Eric Souther's (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "PixaVex". In these sequences, there are actually two instances of PixaVex in the processing network - one TOX is creating the wavy field(s), while the other TOX is processing the video clip of the swimming figure using a Rutt-Etra like displacement extrusion effect. 

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PixaVex x2 Network

More work samples exploring Eric Souther's (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "PixaVex". In these sequences, there are actually two instances of PixaVex in the processing network - one TOX is creating the wavy field(s), while the other TOX is displacing the head video clip. 

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PixaVex - Visit to Robotics Lab

 Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) just released a new Touch Designer TOX (processing module) named "PixaVex" - its reminds me a bit of a Rutt-Etra device, but can do a wide range of raster modifications including being driven by internal oscillators. It's a very cool processing network!

I took it for a spin with some archival footage from a visit (long ago) to a small startup company of a friend of mine Chuck Canon - Honeybee Robotics. Here are some examples of PixaVex at work with fairly subtle luminance 'Z' extrusion settings. [turn on audio]

Using the Color Mixer from Philosophical Tools

Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) has released a new Touch Designer TOX processing network based upon the 8 channel Color Mixer hardware device developed by David Jones.  I initially encountered the color mixer while at my first Experimental TV Center artist residency in 1987 - and I immediately fell in love with the beautiful layering of multi channel video "slices", each of which could be keyed and colorized independently before being summed together on output. Eric's TOX network provides a nice emulation of the original hardware mixer.

The sample footage I'm sharing originates from my original video tape library documenting visits in the early 1990s to several Mayan sites including Chichén Itzá and Cobol in the Yucatan Peninsular of Mexico. Selections have been fed thru the Color Mixer processing network to achieve my desired look and texture. 

Note that edited / selected segments of these raw processing flows will be used in my upcoming River Styx video: the specific section of the program deals with the Journey thru the Mayan Underworld (descent into flames and darkness) and the Voyage to the Ancestors (climbing the sacred mountain into the Sky realms).

Using a Touch Designer Networks: Pixelate

 

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

8 Channel Colorizer by Eric Souther

These examples show  a couple of the default processing options available in Eric Souther's just released 8 channel Colorizer with oscillators and time displacement mapping. (His Touch Designer .tox Colorizer network file is available on his Patreon 'Philosophical Tools' page.)

In the first demo using my Ghost Bark footage, several of the colorizer bands have 'live' fire video inserted into them from a second file.

The second sample of Eric Souther's TD Colorizer shows the effect of the temporal mapper with the flames video being the displacement map applied to the colorized Ancestors footage.

The final sample shows the effect of the temporal mapper with a low rez star sky rotation time lapse video being the displacement map.

It's great to see new digital tools developed based upon analog tools (in this case multi-channel colorizers) designed in the 70s and 80s by artists like Bruce Hern or David Jones.

Note: even those the last two samples are SD rez, the Colorizer can handle up to 4K 60hz processing  input / output.