Initial Dreams of Final
For our final, I’m dreaming of something ambitious but that can also be scaled down accordingly. I am envisioning the train cart to transform elementally. First, I want the train to be come an ice sculpture of itself, seeing frost come off the solid clear/bluish and having the chance to have different colors refracted through the ice. There could be an amazing interaction if I could use mediapipe/gesture recognition for the audience/some members (maybe just me) to do a mimed mining motion to pickax the ice. This could cause the projection to splinter each time; until after a certain amount of times, then the projection breaks and becomes fluid based. The water splashes around the cart filling it up and sloshing, maybe morphing into beer. Then, lightning strikes and heats up the water, causing particle clouds to emerge from the fluids. Eventually, the cart settles back to being metal again, thus completing a cycle. This style of surreal but natural elements excites me as a fun way to give life to this cart that has become a bar but cannot feel any of the beverages it supplies us.
Also, if I can’t do each of these effects, just having one or two would be really good in its own right. This way, if I run out of time or can’t make interactivity work, then I will have one cool shader to play with in multiple ways.
Potential Tutorial:
TouchDesigner Network
Set up the network according to the tutorial provided and used a scan of a football using a Swift/iOS app I’m developing for my thesis!
Ryan Rotella 
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