APM Week 10: Storyboard v1 for Final

Apr 11, 2026

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Ryan Rotella

in Architectural Projection Mapping

Prompt

60 seconds/1 minute of projection content
Projection output resolution is 1280 x 800
Takes the building into consideration (pictured below)
Interactive potentiality

Building Reference

Dumbo Station, under the Manhattan Bridge.

Concept: Beverage Cart becomes Beverage

Currently, the Dumbo Station is a beer/wine/beverage cart in the Dumbo Archway. I tried researching what its past was, but I could not find any primary reference. Whatever this cart’s journey is I think it’s a fun idea to imagine that the cart itself could experience what it provides to others. So on a hot summer’s day, it too can feel the joy that it gives patrons of a cold beverage and its refreshment.

Visual Elements

The bar cart will experience two main elements: ice and water/fluid. I want to create one look where the cart is an ice sculpture, and the other is a look where the cart fills up with water that swishes around it.

Made mockups using TOPs.

apm_final_dumbo.28.toe Download

Technical Execution

The best route to achieve interactive Ice and Water in TouchDesigner seem to be GLSL Shaders. I visited shadertoy.com and found 2 really good ones that I want to emulate.

Links:

Where the River Goes: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xl2XRW
IcePrimitives: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MscXzn

For the ice to crack, I will need to use what are called Voronoi Fractures.

Lake Heckaman has a great video breaking it down here, but the Voronoi Fracture is an algorithm that determines the borders of different sites organically based on distance between a set of points.

Audio Consideration

Sound effects for ice cracking, drinks sloshing, sizzling if drink is carbonated. Music TBD.

Inspiration from TD Community

In my exploration, the people who will influence my work the most will be the aforementioned Lake Heckaman (based in Brooklyn!), Jack DiLaura, and Paketa12.

Here are 3 tutorials I found that I will most likely utilize: