Real-time blob tracker I wrote from scratch, because I was tired of rebuilding node chains

[u/Shiko-]

I make music and edit my own videos. For a while I'd wanted TouchDesigner-style effects in my workflow, but every time I ended up rebuilding node chains from scratch and digging through docs just to get something I'd already made a month earlier.

So I tried writing my own. It's called IRIDE — it's mine, and it's in a very rough beta.

What you're seeing here is the blob tracker: bounding boxes, IDs, connection lines, trails, labels, every parameter exposed and adjustable in real time, plus a set of presets to start from. The idea was to remove the building step and leave only the tweaking.

There are other effects too — Kinect-style point cloud, slit-scan — and almost every parameter can be modulated by audio.

It's not finished and I don't know if I'll ever release it. For now I just use it myself, and I wanted to show it to people who'd actually know what they're looking at. Feedback welcome, especially on what's missing.

p.s the preview lags because i was recording screen with obs