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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.207s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. Tossrock ◴[] No.35737879[source]
I made a visual programming / node editor environment similar to TouchDesigner, vvvv, Unreal Blueprints, etc, on top of Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o

It was originally created to drive a particular large LED installation I work on, but I've generalized it to the point of being able to drive other installations as well. It passes texture data between nodes running compute shaders to chain together patterns/effects, which is a fun and powerful paradigm for creating visuals. Not as powerful or featureful as "real" solutions like TouchDesigner, (which, if I'd known about when starting out, I probably would have just used), but I do know all its ins and outs and can change it exactly how I want, which is nice.