Real-time ASCII Art Effect

Demo on how to create a real-time ASCII Art effect in TouchDesigner from webcam input. Complete control over mapping arbitrary characters to quantized pixel values.

00:00 ASCII Art & Vuk Cosic
00:50 Overview
02:00 Instancing Texture Coordinates via CHOP
02:55 Texture3D TOP
06:30 Fill Texture3D TOP w Table DAT and Select DAT
10:00 Fine-tuning “w” Texture Coordinate with Limit Quantize
15:40 Pattern CHOP
16:30 Back to webcam input
18:50 Rectangle size
20:15 Adding a Noise SOP