POPs Experimental: Shape Morphs in TouchDesigner

This TouchDesigner tutorial looks at using POPs to dynamically blend between spheres and boxes copied on a grid. It is part of a special edition series covering the new POPs operator family in TouchDesigner while we are still in the experimental build.

The project file can be found for free on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Polyhop

This tutorial uses build 2025.30060, but fair warning that things will likely change between now and the official release! My hope is that the methodology can easily be recreated in the official release, but there may be differences if you’re watching in the far future.

TouchDesigner Experimental Downloads: https://derivative.ca/download/experimental
Release Notes: https://derivative.ca/release/experimental-202530060/72143

Video Navigation / Topics:
00:00 – Intro
01:39 – Create a Grid of Spheres
03:36 – Render Network Setup
05:13 – Create Grid of Boxes
08:15 – Mix Attribute via Texture Lookup POP
11:26 – Examine Attributes with POP to DAT
12:55 – The Pop Viewer Palette Component
14:17 – Blending with MathMix POP
16:04 – Blending with MathCombine POP
18:44 – Rotating Copied Geometry via Template Attributes
22:01 – Parting Thoughts