Experimental:POP

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Summary

POPs (Point Operators) is a new Operator Family that rworks with 3D geometry or any general numeric data, runs on GPU-accelerated graphics cards or chips, is rendered by the Render TOP or passed to devices like DMX lighting, LED arrays, lasers or other external systems.

The primary introductory documentation for POPs and the POPs Example files are here: Learning About POPs

Run Help -> OP Snippets in TouchDesigner to see 1000+ examples of all POP types.

See also Category:POPs for a full list of articles related to POPs.

POP Class

Each SOP has a list of Points. Each point has an XYZ 3D position value plus other optional attributes. Each polygon Primitive is defined by a vertex list, which is list of point numbers.

The Graphics Processing Unit. This is the high-speed, many-core processor of the graphics card/chip that takes geometry, images and data from the CPU and creates images and processed data.

An Operator Family that creates, composites and modifies images, and reads/writes images and movies to/from files and the network. TOPs run on the graphics card's GPU.

OP Snippets is a set of 700+ live examples of TouchDesigner operators. You can access snippets via the Help menu, or by right-clicking on network operators, or r-clicking on OP Create dialog items.

POPs (Point Operators) is a new Operator Family that works with 3D geometry or any general numeric data, runs on GPU-accelerated graphics cards or chips, is rendered as images or passed to devices like DMX lighting, LED arrays, lasers or other external systems.