Emoji Mosiac Touchdesigner
Emoji Mosaic Pulse — TouchDesigner Real-Time Video EffectTurn any video into a living, breathing mosaic made entirely of emojis — with bass-reactive pulse rings that ripple outward from the center in time with music.How it worksEvery frame of your video is analyzed pixel-by-pixel and replaced with the closest color-matched emoji from a library of 533 emojis. The result is a massive grid of emoji tiles that faithfully reproduces your source video at a glance, while revealing individual emoji characters up close.When audio is connected, a beat detection engine listens for bass hits and spawns expanding ring waves from the center of the frame. As each ring passes through emoji tiles, they jitter, shift color, and "breathe" in scale — creating an organic, audio-reactive pulse effect across the entire mosaic.What's included 4 GPU-accelerated mosaic renderers (GLSL shaders with O(1) color matching) Beat detection pulse engine with up to 4 simultaneous expanding rings 3-band audio frequency analysis (bass, mids, highs) with smooth and fast response curves Cinematic zoom animation (starts tight on individual emojis, pulls out to reveal the full image) 533-emoji atlas with precomputed color lookup cube Horizontal output (16:9, 1920x1080) Vertical output from horizontal source with seamless edge mirroring (9:16, 2160x3840) Vertical-native output for vertical video input — no mirroring, direct 1:1 mapping (9:16, 1080x1920) Video recorder node (H.264 .mov) ready to export Full control panel: grid density, tile size, zoom timing/easing, pulse sensitivity, ring width, jitter amount, color shift, scale breathing, scramble intensity — all adjustable in real-time Output formats 16:9 landscape for YouTube, desktop displays 9:16 portrait for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts Record directly from TouchDesigner to .mov with synced audio Requirements TouchDesigner (tested on 2025.32280+) GPU with OpenGL 4.3+ support Just drop in your video, connect your audio, and hit play.Adjust tone/length as needed — if you want a shorter version or want to emphasize specific features (like the TikTok/Reels vertical output), let me know.
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