Aurelian
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Aurelian Ionus is a computer engineer from Sibiu, Romania. There was a time when he was been afraid of programming, and so he chose to work in graphic design, identity, web, and 3D.
It wasn't until 10 years ago that Aurelian did his first steps in Processing and started to like the idea of creating with algorithms. Yet still the 'line of code' didn't seem appealing to him. Everything changed when he first discovered TouchDesigner five years ago. Aurelian became addicted in a short time and set himself the goal to become good at it. At the same time, the idea of doing tutorials and sharing something with the community arose. Five years later, he is nothing short of a legend in the community for pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with TOPS (Texture Operators). Avoiding GLSL, but taking inspiration from the underlying concepts, he follows his mantra: “Do it in TOPS”. His tutorials have become a great inspiration to the community and he keeps researching and publishing new techniques on his YouTube and Patreon channels under the alias Paketa12.