Working with Image Files

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Overview:

Texture Operators (TOPs) are operators that provide real-time, GPU-based compositing and image manipulation. The Movie File In TOP is used to load both movies and still images into TOPs. To get started, we’ll first begin by loading an image file and then use the interactive viewer to take a more detailed look at our image.

Download Example .tox

References:

TOPs – Derivative Wiki
Movie File in TOP – Derivative Wiki
TOP Viewer – Derivative Wiki

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