Simulating Snowflake Fractals in TouchDesigner
This tutorial is going to teach you how to simulate snowflake fractals in TouchDesigner using only TOPs, so beginner friendly! It's pretty much a port of Entagma's tutorial in Houdini based on Clifford A. Reiter's paper, definitely recommend checking them out! We will be going through the logic behind snowflake growth first and then walk through the process in TouchDesigner step by step including the fundamental Convolve TOP. As always, follow along and have fun, or just leave this on as ASMR background noise if you like ;) Entagma's tutorial in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AQ3yj3L4w Clifford A. Reiter's paper: https://acoustique.ec-lyon.fr/chaos/Reiter_ChaosSolitonsFractals05.pdf Chapters: 00:00 Overview 00:29 Theory Behind Snowflake Growth 04:02 Creating Initial Field 05:46 Selecting Neighbours with Convolve 12:44 Receptive Cell Processing 13:17 Non-receptive Cell Processing 14:12 Post-processing & Tweaks 17:48 Caching Frames & Variations 19:16 Adding More Seeds 20:21 Conclusion
This tutorial is going to teach you how to simulate snowflake fractals in TouchDesigner using only TOPs, so beginner friendly! It's pretty much a port of Entagma's tutorial in Houdini based on Clifford A. Reiter's paper, definitely recommend checking them out! We will be going through the logic behind snowflake growth first and then walk through the process in TouchDesigner step by step including the fundamental Convolve TOP. As always, follow along and have fun, or just leave this on as ASMR background noise if you like ;) Entagma's tutorial in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AQ3yj3L4w Clifford A. Reiter's paper: https://acoustique.ec-lyon.fr/chaos/Reiter_ChaosSolitonsFractals05.pdf Chapters: 00:00 Overview 00:29 Theory Behind Snowflake Growth 04:02 Creating Initial Field 05:46 Selecting Neighbours with Convolve 12:44 Receptive Cell Processing 13:17 Non-receptive Cell Processing 14:12 Post-processing & Tweaks 17:48 Caching Frames & Variations 19:16 Adding More Seeds 20:21 Conclusion