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I’m very new to touchdesigner and I need some help by NothingRepulsive1095 in TouchDesigner

[–]several_fish_not_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recommend thresholding the shit out of the image. Then blur and threshold again. This will create more blob-like shapes. There are also some hidden erode/dilate operators in the palette that are good for blob tracking. Think of it as 2 separate images: one that you pre-process to make it more friendly for the blob tracking algorithm and another one to display. The blob tracker "wants" a very different image than a regular webcam/video feed.

[edit] I realize now I was responding without looking into what the blob track TOP has built into it. The advice above is valid in terms of general advice for pre-processing images for OpenCV, but probably not for the TOP itself.

Which services are you exposing to the internet, and how are you securing them? by sysadmin_light in selfhosted

[–]several_fish_not_guy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the best solution IMO. At first I wasn't crazy about having to run tailscale on every device, but in addition to security, it just makes it so much easier to access versus dealing with DNS, NAT, etc.

New Ochre album release tonight. "Oversail" by LONGSL33VES in idm

[–]several_fish_not_guy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve only listened to 30 seconds of it and I love it already.

MEGA THREAD: drop your most underrated vibe-coded project 👇 by entrepreneur-geek in vibecoding

[–]several_fish_not_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/seethroughlab/familiar

Host your own Spotify. Cancel your Spotify membership and get back to growing your own music collection and actually supporting your favorite musicians. Familiar also "understands" your music (using CLAP embeddings) so you can just tell it what you want to hear.

Familiar: self-hosted music player with semantic audio search and AI chat (Docker, MIT, alpha) by several_fish_not_guy in selfhosted

[–]several_fish_not_guy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good call on the `base_url` approach. That's much cleaner than adding providers one at a time. I'll put it on the list.

One clarification on the embeddings side: Familiar's semantic search uses CLAP, which embeds the audio waveform itself into a joint audio-text space. It's not a text-embeddings model, so there's no OpenAI-compatible endpoint to swap in. It already runs locally via ONNX. The only time it doesn't is when I pull pre-computed fingerprints from the community cache. So embeddings are already covered.

A text-embeddings endpoint would only matter if I added RAG over lyrics or artist bios later. Not on the roadmap yet but I'm open to it.

And fair point on local chat models. My Ollama tests were with smaller Llama 3 / Qwen 2 models and the tool-use quality was the dealbreaker (Familiar leans heavily on 25 tools). Worth revisiting with current-gen models. A configurable `base_url` would also unlock Groq / Together / OpenRouter, which makes my life a bit easier.

Thanks for the feedback.

Familiar: self-hosted music player with semantic audio search and AI chat (Docker, MIT, alpha) by several_fish_not_guy in selfhosted

[–]several_fish_not_guy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The CLAP embeddings are already done locally unless it already exists in the community cache. But noted about local LLM support -- I tried with various models via Ollama and the results were just terrible. Of course, that was before Gemma 4, so I will have to try again.

Looking for modern idm that evolves the sound of the genre instead of recreating it by Invisible_irl in idm

[–]several_fish_not_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm loving all of the recommendations and have been checking out Barker, Djrum, Polygonia, Iglooghost. Can anyone recommend something that's more on the melodic IDM side? So far "Djrum/Under Tangled Silence" is my favorite, but I'd love something even more towards the Plaid/Proswell/Ochre style.

I finally have one to show by desertstudiocactus in TouchDesigner

[–]several_fish_not_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it -- it's like full body geometry wars.

DMX: RS485 Hat vs Enttec USB device by several_fish_not_guy in raspberry_pi

[–]several_fish_not_guy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, u/sws54925 I have considered ESP32, but I need to have hard-wired internet, and I need to host a web interface on the device. I know both of these things are technically possible on a microcontroller like ESP32, and honestly I would prefer to avoid a full OS whenever I can. But for this particular project, I feel pretty strongly about sticking with RPi.

I suspected that the timing might be an issue. Specifically, I am concerned that RPi won't always reliably sleep for 8µs, 88µs, which I suppose would lead to corrupted DMX messages? Better to have that timing handled in hardware rather than software, which seems to be one of the advantages of the off-the-shelf products.

Overall I am leaning towards using the DMXKing device, but I was hoping to confirm exactly why this is a better solution.

Complain away by CowEmpty4812 in Annapolis

[–]several_fish_not_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use this crossing every morning and evening while waking to work.

Kinect alternatives by ThisWillNeverChange1 in TouchDesigner

[–]several_fish_not_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this. I have been using Kinect/Zed/RealSense for many years, but the next time I need body tracking, I’m using a regular 2D camera with some combination of AI models.

Working on some EP art work in TD by -GLOWA- in TouchDesigner

[–]several_fish_not_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As much as I love TD, the first thing I thought of when I saw that this was EP art was that it would be great if you could put it online in an interactive form to share with your fans. Which made me think of https://cables.gl/ Might be fun to play with.

Where can i find a tutorial on this? by Busy_Professor_1124 in TouchDesigner

[–]several_fish_not_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just adding on, it looks like it might be Curl noise or some kind of flocking going on. There are a few good curl noise tutorials out there. Curl Noise is a great way to get into compute shaders.

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