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Astrum: Turning Riyadh’s Skyline into a Living Planetarium | Derivative
Astrum: Turning Riyadh’s Skyline into a Living Planetarium | Derivative
Light-artist László Zsolt Bordos has never shied away from big canvases—mapping entire cathedrals and skyscrapers is his specialty, but with “Astrum” he set his sights on the sky itself. Perched on Riyadh’s Al Faisaliah Tower, the piece uses 64 pan-tilt beams to track the Moon, planets and a few hundred stars in real time, essentially turning the skyline into a living planetarium and inviting viewers to reconnect with the timeless rhythm of the cosmos and their place within it. Previsualization.
TouchDesigner POPs Workshop | Derivative
TouchDesigner POPs Workshop | Derivative
Overview Join us for a 2-day, 12 hour intermediate workshop aimed at TouchDesigner practitioners ready to explore the vast possibilities of the new POP family. This workshop covers foundational knowledge on Point Operators looking at how to utilize attributes to modify and animate complex, gpu-accelerated setups. Lessons will dive into advanced techniques focusing on point clouds, particle systems, DMX fixture control with POPs, and GLSL scripting.
Commons, Cameras, and Code: Art as Resistance with Matthew Biederman
Commons, Cameras, and Code: Art as Resistance with Matthew Biederman
Montreal media artist Matthew Biederman has spent the past two decades wielding data, light, and open-source code as instruments of cultural resistance. An early TouchDesigner adopter, he began folding AI and machine learning into his projects, using GANs, computer-vision pipelines, and other generative models to critique surveillance, perception, and algorithmic control. In our conversation, Biederman unpacks the technical and conceptual engines behind his practice.
2025 Official Update
2025 Official Update
DOWNLOAD 2025 Official TouchDesigner is here and we can’t wait to share it with you! This year’s release is quite special with the introduction of a completely new family of operators called Point Operators (POPs) bringing you a new high-performance approach to working with 3D in TouchDesigner. This is the first new operator family we’ve added in over a decade and it promises to be a game changer for the way you work in TouchDesigner!
Introducing the 200 Series for the TouchDesigner Curriculum
Introducing the 200 Series for the TouchDesigner Curriculum
Time flies – it was a year ago that we launched a new educational portal for TouchDesigner on learn.derivative.ca. In the year since the TouchDesigner Curriculum has gone live, we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from individuals and instructors who have gone through the materials. We’re excited to share that we’ve been collaborating once again with the SudoMagic team to add new materials in the 200 Series, focused on intermediate content.
Introducing POPs-A new Operator Family for TouchDesigner
Introducing POPs-A new Operator Family for TouchDesigner
It's not every day we introduce a new operator family for TouchDesigner. DATs (Data Operators) was the last family created in 2005. Introducing Point Operators - POPs - a new set of operators that run on the GPU for manipulating 3D data - points, polygons, point clouds, particles, line strips and all things 3D. POPs will be released in the Experimental builds of TouchDesigner later this year. Experiments.
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Derivative is a software company that offers TouchDesigner, a visual development platform.
TouchDesigner YouTube / Video Tutorials
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