Instancing in TouchDesigner 3/3: Animating with TOPs, Audio-Reactive Geometry, RGB to XYZ

What is instancing, and how can we use it? Instancing allows us to draw a single shape, or SOP, many times, more efficiently than if we were to copy it over and over. The Geo comp allows us to define how each instance of the SOP is drawn, using several different control fields which can take instructional data from almost any source, provided we format the data correctly.

In the final video in this series, we look at using TOPs to previsualize and control our animations, introduce the ‘Audio Analysis’ tool to give us some ideas for how to make our geometry dance to music, and finally peer under the hood into how our TOPs are really working by generating position data without any SOP-to-CHOPs at all!

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/reynbows/Intro2Instancing
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