This weeks primary content comes from Simon Alexander-Adams, who is a media artist, interaction designer, and musician out of Detroit, MI. The tutorial examines the use of “noise” as visual source and displacement data in a generative art work. Please head to Simon’s page hosting this tutorial, read through his discussions around noise, randomness, and displacement.

I would also like you to read the linked articles with further information on these subjects.

• Noise Displacement in TouchDesigner — Simon Alexander-Adams
• Links to Concepts
  • The Book of Shaders: Random
  • The Book of Shaders: Noise
• Artists and Concepts Mentioned
  • The Aesthetics of Chance: Ellsworth Kelly – A Z
  • Shepherding Random Numbers · inconvergent
  • Why Love Generative Art? — Artnome
• Links to TD Operators
  • When you utilize an operator you are unfamiliar with, you should go to the TD Wiki and read about it, this will allow you to start learning operators more rapidly, as well as offer you information about how they may be used.
  • TouchDesigner Documentation - Noise TOP
  • TouchDesigner Documentation - Phong MAT
  • TouchDesigner Documentation - Lookup TOP

The video for this tutorial is on Simon’s tutorial page, it is provided below for reference as well.