#eric souther

This example shows 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 this demo, several of the colorizer bands have 'live' fire video inserted into them from a second file.

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.

A few weeks ago, Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) released another Touch Designer TOX tool called "VectMandala". As he describes it: "VectMandala is an XYZ oscilloscope that creates sonic mandala formations."

This final sample of Eric Souther's TD Colorizer .tox shows the effect of the temporal mapper with a low rez star sky rotation time lapse video being the displacement map.

I started playing with a new Touch Designer video FX processing module called PixaVex developed by Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon). I dug up some archival footage of a visit I made some time ago to an early startup robotics lab in NYC called Honeybee Robotics.

PixaVex reminds me a lot of Rutt-Etra FX, but there are great control adjustments as well as in-built oscillators for "x" & "y" control voltage signals. Overall, I think it's a very nice raster manipulation network to explore. Thanks, Eric!

For a few more samples of processing Honeybee footage, visit my Image-Maya.org art blog.

PixaVex - Visit to Robotics Lab

Processing of footage from Cobal, Mexico Mayan ruins using a recent Touch Designer network developed by video artist and teacher Eric Souther (Philosophical Tools on Patreon) - a Color Mixer designed after the original HW version developed in the mid 70's (rev 1) thru the early 80's (rev 2) by David Jones for use at The Experimental TV Center (and later made available at Signal Culture).

This is one of the nicest "analog" tools that I've used, allowing for 1,2,3,4 or more feed channels to be colorized and keyed, then remixed RGB additively for output. The TD version from Eric emulates the original hardware device's capabilities nicely.

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For more samples, see my art blog Image-Maya.org:

Using the Color Mixer from Philosophical Tools