recipe-td-dither / Visual craft

Reactive dither operator chain

Original FORM//GRAPH synthesis · design proposal

A reusable node stack turns image or video into blue-noise dither, glyph texture and a restrained feedback trail with named presets.

TouchDesignerDitherGlyphFeedback

Where it belongs

Best as a house material that can process campaigns, portraits and product footage consistently.

Build high-resolution masters in TouchDesigner; ship a simplified two-pass shader or pre-rendered loop per surface.

Production sequence

  1. Prepare image/video with saturation and contrast as explicit pre-process controls.
  2. Apply blue-noise thresholding, then optional glyph quantization on luminance.
  3. Add a pointer or audio envelope to a short feedback displacement—not global turbulence.
  4. Save named states: forensic, bloom, archive and nocturne with parameter manifests.
  5. Export AVIF/WebM and a GLSL approximation; compare visual delta before choosing live runtime.

Handoff contract

Deliverables
TOX component + preset JSON + shader approximation
Proposed runtime budget
Live effect ≤ 2 passes

This is a production brief, not a downloadable implementation. Budgets are proposed targets; validate them on the intended devices before release.