THIRD WAVE

@touchdesigner PEOPLE - Get to our YouTube immediately (link in bio) for such bangers as: Looking to build big, complex applications in TouchDesigner but DEATHLY AFRAID of the complexity? Do you (wrongly) think TouchDesigner projects have to be a psychotic mess? Are you making spaghetti projects you can barely read, much less reason about? Are you embarrassed to show your code to others? Do you use Timer CHOPs to control state? Do you have code scattered all over a million Text DATs and callbacks? Are you guilty of the ‘loads of nodes’ code style that is holding you back and alienating your loved ones?? I am excited to tell you that there is a MUCH better way!! In this video I show you: * STATE MACHINES: how to use Finite State Machines to control application flow and act as a single source of truth, with explicit, declarative, legible code * EXTENSION-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT: how to use Python extensions and minimal nodes to keep code legible, maintainable, and diffable (great for collaboration) * PROJECT STRUCTURE: how to structure the root level of the app and your file system in a way that any old dummy would understand in 5 minutes * STARTUP FLOW: centralize app boostrapping in one logical place * GLOBAL OP SHORTCUTS: this one weird trick to make code infinitely more modular, legible, and portable doctors hate! * ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: use launch scripts and env settings to feature-flag one app to work on many systems * BONUS: a little bit about Pytransitions for fully-featured state machine shenanigans

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting @thirdwavearcade / @hardworkparty ’s TouchDesigner Meetup at Otherworld Philadelphia 🤝 Presentations were given by artist and educator Mina Zarfsaz and Dave Sheinkopf of Smooth Technology, as well as by our very own technical team, Matt Schenck and David Skovron. Thank you all who came out and nerded out with us! 🧠💜

Photo dump from last night’s @touchdesigner Philly meetup at @otherworld.philly with a few photos from Ana Estarita in the mix. Great times in wild surroundings. Thank you Otherworld for hosting and for the tour, thanks @m.sawzall and @bbq_dave for the talks! Will post videos soon to the @thirdwavearcade YouTube. See you on the next one!

5/27 @touchdesigner Philly Meetup v01 ( that’s number 2 ) Featuring talks from: Trans-disciplinary artist Mina Zarfsaz, @bbq_dave , co-founder of @smooth.technology on his Otherworld contributions, and a very special backstage tour of @otherworld.philly from Otherworld’s own tech team David Skovron and Matt Schenck This one will be good! RSVP at tinyurl.com/tdphillyv01 or at the QR in the image Thanks as always to @a.estarita for the org help! See you there!

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The recordings are up from the first (that we know of) @touchdesigner Philly Meetup! Check them out on our YouTube at youtube.com/@thirdwavearcade Thanks to everyone who came out, to Emil Polyak for the talk and connecting us with Drexel, to @a.estarita for helping organize, to @drexeldigitalmedia for providing the space, and to @spatialpixel for the killer demo. Watch this space for news about future events and hit us up if you’d like to host, present, or attend the next one! #touchdesigner #generativeart #projectionmapping #fractals #arcade

TOUCHDESIGNER PHILLY MEETUP v0 Friday, March 14 7p-9p URBN Center, 3501 Market St, Room: URBN 349 (Level 3) Presentations from Emil Polyak, @spatialpixel , and @hardworkparty / @thirdwavearcade RSVP on eventbrite: tinyurl.com/tdphillyv0 Hopefully the first of many more to come. Thanks to @a.estarita for org help and @drexeldigitalmedia for sponsoring and hosting. Thanks to @touchdesigner for TouchDesigner.

Our first video for @thirdwavearcade is up: Making Games in TouchDesigner? @touchdesigner is the best tool out there for new media installations, experiments, visual art explorations, large-scale interactive systems, etc. etc., but can it be used to make games? What are the pros and cons? Let’s get into it! In addition to a deep dive on the ins and outs of using TouchDesigner to make games, we also talk to Simon Alexander-Adams, aka @polyhop , about his experiences building games in TouchDesigner. Who else should we talk to about games in TD? Watch the video and leave a spicy comment! Link in bio! #games #touchdesigner #gamedev #unreal #unity #godot #immersive

Our first video for @thirdwavearcade is up: Making Games in TouchDesigner? @touchdesigner is the best tool out there for new media installations, experiments, visual art explorations, large-scale interactive systems, etc. etc., but can it be used to make games? What are the pros and cons? Let’s get into it! In addition to a deep dive on the ins and outs of using TouchDesigner to make games, we also talk to Simon Alexander-Adams, aka @polyhop , about his experiences building games in TouchDesigner. Who else should we talk to about games in TD? Watch the video and leave a spicy comment! Link in bio! #games #touchdesigner #gamedev #unreal #unity #godot #immersive

Our first video is up: Making Games in TouchDesigner? @touchdesigner is the best tool out there for new media installations, experiments, visual art explorations, large-scale interactive systems, etc. etc., but can it be used to make games? What are the pros and cons? Let’s get into it! In addition to a deep dive on the ins and outs of using TouchDesigner to make games, we also talk to Simon Alexander-Adams, aka @polyhop , about his experiences building games in TouchDesigner. Who else should we talk to about games in TD? Watch the video and leave a spicy comment! Link in bio! #games #touchdesigner #gamedev #unreal #unity #godot #immersive