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# Drought Planet



Film35s



[video](https://media.cheyuwu.com/td/251217-drought-planet/883ca77e-1080.mp4)


Drought Planet



Date



2025-12-17



Length



35 s



Tools



TouchDesigner · POP · GLSL · Python · Ableton Live



Nodes



1,117（TOP 276 · COMP 257 · CHOP 254 · DAT 190）



Saves



52



Built on



Cinematic_POSTFX_251204, Mock_StageReflect_251212, VisualFrame_251214, base_audio_251201, basic_3d_render_251209, work_capturer_251213



Contents & work details



Date



2025-12-17



Length



35 s



Tools



TouchDesigner · POP · GLSL · Python · Ableton Live



Nodes



1,117（TOP 276 · COMP 257 · CHOP 254 · DAT 190）



Saves



52



Built on



Cinematic_POSTFX_251204, Mock_StageReflect_251212, VisualFrame_251214, base_audio_251201, basic_3d_render_251209, work_capturer_251213



## Written at release



What happens when a planet is formatted?



Using the Limit operator, I forced organic trajectories into rigid quantization. The landscape collapses into voxels—a world drained of its analog fluid, leaving behind a beautiful, ordered desolation.



Initiating a sequence of cosmic explorations. Attempting to re-compile the universe into verse.



created using @touchdesigner



#interactive #audiovisual #touchdesigner #newmediaart



## What it is built on



This one is built on 6 shared modules: Cinematic_POSTFX_251204, Mock_StageReflect_251212, VisualFrame_251214, base_audio_251201, basic_3d_render_251209, work_capturer_251213. The six digits in a module name are the day it was made; the same module appearing across works is the lineage of this series.



## Context & sources


- [Instagram post ↗](https://www.instagram.com/p/DSX2LDTE_EG/)



Exhibitions, research & collaborations

[Contact the artist ↗](https://cheyuwu.com/contact?work=Drought+Planet&from=/td/251217-drought-planet/)



## Continue through the work



![Weaving](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/td/260709-weaving-dac9acb0-thumb.webp)


2026



### Weaving

[https://cheyuwu.com/td/260709-weaving](https://cheyuwu.com/td/260709-weaving)



![Crab Invading](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/td/260118-crab-invading-7ade6301-thumb.webp)


2026



### Crab Invading

[https://cheyuwu.com/td/260118-crab-invading](https://cheyuwu.com/td/260118-crab-invading)



![Lonely Sunflower](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/td/260109-lonely-sunflower-bdb8c5b6-thumb.webp)


2026



### Lonely Sunflower

[https://cheyuwu.com/td/260109-lonely-sunflower](https://cheyuwu.com/td/260109-lonely-sunflower)



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