Geospatial Data Visualization with TouchDesigner

Videos demonstrating how to bring geographic data from OpenStreetMap into TouchDesigner via QGIS and Houdini.

Geospatial Data Visualization with TouchDesigner, Part 1: Open Street Maps

Geospatial Data Visualization with TouchDesigner, Part 1: Open Street Maps from Lake Heckaman on YouTube.

Description

In this project, we build a geospatial data pipeline to power a real-time visualization built in TouchDesigner. We will look at a number of applications and effects, visualization with instancing and render picking, and integrate various data sources along the way.

Part 1 includes using qGIS software to bulk download Open Street Map data, Houdini with SideFX Labs to process the data, and of course TouchDesigner for visualization.

Project files: www.patreon.com/water__shed

00:00 - Intro / Project Series Overview 02:40 - OpenStreetMap 03:56 - QGIS 07:54 - Open Street Map Data Processing in Houdini 39:08 - Importing OSM data to TouchDesigner

Geospatial Data Visualization with TouchDesigner, Part 2: Point Cloud Rendering

Geospatial Data Visualization with TouchDesigner, Part 2: Point Cloud Rendering from Lake Heckaman on YouTube.

Description

In this project, we build a geospatial data pipeline to power a real-time visualization built in TouchDesigner. We will look at a number of applications and effects, visualization with instancing and render picking, and integrate various data sources along the way.

Part 2 outlines a super-lightweight rendering setup for point clouds!

Project files: www.patreon.com/water__shed 00:00 - Start 01:43 - Point Cloud Instancing with Add SOP 04:56 - Camera Far Distance 20:01 - Camera Blend