Torin Blankensmith
Real-time graphics artist, creative technologist. Co-creator of @shaderpark. Adjunct professor @parsons_dt teaching TouchDesigner. Also @tblankensmith
Genuary Day 5 Prompt: Isometric Art (No vanishing points).
Picking back up an old exploration on hexagons and added in some interactivity.
Created in #TouchDesigner using the MediaPipe plugin for hand tracking by myself and @domscott.art
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Genuary Day 23 Prompt: Inspired by brutalism.
That’s a nice boulder.
Rendered in #TouchDesigner using the MediaPipe plugin for hand tracking (created by myself and @domscott.art )
Music by: @wearetwolanes
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I'm so excited to launch a new free open-sourced MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner that I worked on in collaboration with @domisjustanumber.
Link 🔗 to the tutorial + component is in my bio on YouTube
Currently it supports face, hand, pose and object tracking with multi-person face detection, object detection, and image segmentation / background removal. The plugin is GPU accelerated and works on Mac and PC with no installation. We're so excited to see what you will make with it. 😄🎉🎉🎉 #TouchDesigner #MediaPipe
Torin & Lyell demo Classifier & PCA visualization TOXs live at DATLAB XIII 12/2025. TouchDesigner plugins for training custom classifiers on any CHOP data — gestures, image embeddings, EEG signals, and more.
Download free at
datlabnyc.com/classified
Speakers: @blankensmithing & @dotsimulate at @datlabnyc XIII
Tool(s) mentioned: TouchDesigner, MediaPipe, Teachable Machine
Full presentation in DATLAB XIII Livestream - https://www.youtube.com/live/Pre9ccoSOTY?si=7H1Ra5UJVXrKqaYz&t=3074
Edited by @shai._.guy , AV by @change.is & @tom.seungki , Music by @cypresscynrd
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Join me and Rubin Kodheli playing our music with electric string quartet and Drumset this Friday Mar 20 at Brooklyn Art Haus—a beautiful black box immersive theater in Williamsburg. We’re exited to bring our improvised audio/visual pieces as well as new compositions!
Join me and Rubin Kodheli playing our music with electric string quartet and Drumset this Friday Mar 20 at Brooklyn Art Haus—a beautiful black box immersive theater in Williamsburg. We’re exited to bring our improvised audio/visual pieces as well as new compositions!
Join us on Thursday Feb 26th for our 14th DATLAB Event, at ZeroSpace
Open Call is live! Please submit your talks, AV performances, and installations through the form on Partiful.
Event link / registration in bio of @datlabnyc
Event Timing:
6-7 PM: Welcome / Meet & Greet
7-8 PM: Community presentations/talks
8-9 PM: AV Performance / social time
Hosted by @blankensmithing and @dotsimulate
Artwork created using @prismatic.visuals ‘s Global Illumination toolkit
Genuary Day 16: Order and Chaos
I wanted to see what would happen if I ran object tracking with my new YOLO plugin for TouchDesigner. I tracked objects from two video feeds and let each feed paint layers from the other. Eventually, it became Bird Paints Car Paints Bird. Hope you enjoy my silly experiment.
The Yolo plugin is available on my Patreon for anyone who wants to experiment.
Created in #TouchDesigner
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Genuary Day 15: Invisible Object with Shadows
Had a lot of fun playing around, creating procedural stereographic projections with POPs. Took a lot of experimenting, and @sarv.vj’s new 360 Shadows for Point Lights ended up saving the day, making it work. The built-in shadows would clip before the light source could get close enough to the object to do a proper projection. Hand tracking done with the MediaPipe plugin co-created by myself and @domscott.art
Visuals created in #TouchDesigner
Music by Barker (Modified in Ableton)
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Genuary Day 14 Prompt: Everything fits perfectly
It brought me so much joy figuring out this song was in my favorite key to play on the keys. Shout out to @function.str for the chromatic distortion component that really tied together the lighting on this.
Visuals created in #TouchDesigner
Everything in its right place
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Genuary Day 13 Prompt: Self Portrait
I’ve been wanting to experiment with @josefpelz’s point relax tool and finally got around to it. I’m doing a weird workaround from SOP to distance field to POP with T3D, but it’s fun to have the levels of detail.
Visuals created in #TouchDesigner. Face tracking data done with the MediaPipe plugin co-created by myself and @domscott.art. Music by Tor
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Genuary Day 12 Prompt: Boxes only.
Got the #TouchDesigner to Minecraft integration working all thanks to @peterwhidden setting up a custom paper MC plugin that can accept voxel data over websocket. We also got it animating with POPs data as well.
Face tracking data done with the MediaPipe plugin co-created by myself and @domscott.art
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Genuary Day 11 Prompt: Quine (a form of code poetry, it’s a computer program that outputs exactly its own source code)
Not really a Quine, but the input to this truchet pattern is a screen capture of the network that outputs the pattern. More of a recursive visualization, but still fun to experiment.
Original song by music by Max Cooper, but I mangled it with the interaction. Created in #TouchDesigner. Hand tracking done with the MediaPipe plugin co-created by myself and @domscott.art
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