Node 05 · Canneye Nodes
Bitumen
A real cannabis flower, photographed from every angle on a turntable and rebuilt as a Gaussian splat of 99,189 points, packaged as a TouchDesigner component that listens to your audio. What you are spinning above is the actual asset, streamed at full density, not a preview render of it.
What makes this capture different
Measured against the rest of the catalog, Bitumen is the most compact capture, short and tightly packed, which keeps detail legible when scaled down. Its bounding volume is 0.76 by 0.94 by 0.68, with a crown-to-base girth ratio of 1.30. That shape is worth knowing before you buy: tightly tapered captures cut dramatic silhouettes against a dark stage, while rounder ones hold their mass from every camera angle.
What you get
- Bitumen.tox — drop into any TouchDesigner project
- Bitumen.ply — 99,189 gaussians, culled and upright
- Setup notes covering every parameter and the audio routing
Parameters
Zoom, Zoomreact, Spinspeed, Audiopulse, Tiltx and Tiltz sit on the component's front panel. A three-band audio split reads your default system input and the low band drives the pulse. The output is a TOP on the back of the component, so it drops straight into a larger composition.
Requirements
TouchDesigner 2025.32820 or newer, because native Gaussian splat rendering was added in that build and earlier versions will not open the component. The free non-commercial tier runs everything here. This is a .tox and does not load in Resolume, Notch or Max, and there is no OSC layer in this version. Driving it from music playing on your computer needs a loopback device on Windows, the same as any other TouchDesigner audio patch.
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