Generative projects for TouchDesigner: 29 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
29 free project files
mylesjaeger shares TurgorSystem as a free .tox file in the Derivative community Asset section. The component simulates cells that are internally pressurized and press against their neighbors until they fill the space…
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mylesjaeger shares Generative Metaball Tangency as a free .tox file in the Derivative community Asset section. The component uses GLSL to generate a network of circular blobs that snap onto a hidden grid and grow into…
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qo84531342 shares Gestation, a real-time generative digital lifeform experiment, as an open TouchDesigner project in the Derivative community Asset section.
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alison rc, a Paris-based new media artist, shares protocole_modulaire.toe, an experimental open-source interface built entirely in TouchDesigner for generative visual work.
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Artcraft shares 4D GLSL Noise in the Derivative community Asset section: a single .tox containing 16 procedural noise types that all run in true 4D.
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GitHub user patrickhartono shares TD-EduPack, a collection of beginner-friendly TouchDesigner modules first made for first-year design students at RMIT Vietnam who are new to node-based systems.
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anya maryina's Bus Seat tutorial project recreates the busy generative fabric patterns found on bus seats using TouchDesigner instancing.
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Paul Andrew shares the TouchDesigner project file for his Data Entropy visual alongside a brief tutorial. He notes that it is not entirely accurate to the original Data Entropy video because he lost that .toe, so this…
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Matthew Ragan ported 'The Book of Shaders' by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe into TouchDesigner as BOS-in-TouchDesigner, built in version 099.
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Yasushi Noguchi explains geometry instancing in this Japanese class handout, starting from a box instanced on a 10 by 10 Grid SOP and moved with a Noise SOP in instance.toe.
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Davide De Marco shares his TouchDesigner learning path as a collection of experiment files. The chaotic attractor set includes Thomas, Lorenz, Dadras, Chen and Langford attractors plus a pulsing attractor, expanding on…
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Simon Alexander-Adams collects the example files for his TouchDesigner tutorials and workshops (simonaa.media, 2019 to 2021) in the TD-Tutorials repository.
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internetbigboi runs a Spanish-language tutorial series on derivative.ca that recreates the generative art examples of generativeartistry.com in TouchDesigner.
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internetbigboi runs a Spanish-language tutorial series on derivative.ca that recreates the generative art examples of generativeartistry.com in TouchDesigner.
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internetbigboi runs a Spanish-language tutorial series on derivative.ca that recreates the generative art examples of generativeartistry.com in TouchDesigner.
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internetbigboi runs a Spanish-language tutorial series on derivative.ca that recreates the generative art examples of generativeartistry.com in TouchDesigner.
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internetbigboi runs a Spanish-language tutorial series on derivative.ca that recreates the generative art examples of generativeartistry.com in TouchDesigner.
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Darien Brito made this short derivative.ca tutorial series on cellular automata and Conway's Game of Life as a tribute to John Conway.
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Chris Riebschlager shares the sketches he made while learning TouchDesigner, each in its own folder with a .toe file and a thumbnail of the output.
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Derivative's official GitHub hosts GenerativeDesign, a port of the example sketches from the book 'Generative Design' to TouchDesigner as 90 .tox components.
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Colin Reid (cpreid2) shares 28 generative art experiments made with TouchDesigner as .toe files. The audio-reactive folder holds pieces such as Clickhole, Crosshatch, Heartbeat, Metaball, MusicViz and Noise Sphere plus…
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Professor Jean-François Renaud publishes the materials of his UQAM course on computer-generated images and generative processes (EDM4611, Bachelor in interactive media) on GitHub under GPL-3.0.
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Greg Finger shares the GLSL Instancing Utility, a TouchDesigner project that pushes as much instancing control as possible onto the GPU.
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IntentDev (Keith Lostracco with Peter Walker and Matthew Wachter) shares Luminosity, a front-end built in TouchDesigner for performing, controlling and distributing real-time media while keeping TouchDesigner's…
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Matthew Ragan shares the support materials for Make Some Noise, a two-day TouchDesigner workshop hosted by Obscura Digital in San Francisco in April 2017, whose schedule also lists a block by a second instructor, Greg.
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girlflux shares the project file for a quick test of GLSL noise with feedback. The file, glsl-noise-particle-feedback.toe, is a noise feedback system built from the GLSL noise particle example M_1_5_02 in Derivative's…
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Shiro.viz shares a procedural Taiwanese Old House Generator for TouchDesigner on Gumroad, inspired by traditional Taiwanese architecture and historical blueprints.
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Alexey Atapin shares Generative kinetic typography on Gumroad, a set of text animations made in TouchDesigner. All 15 animations, which are shown as videos on the author's Behance page, are in one TouchDesigner .toe…
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CRAZY RADIO runs a Korean-language TouchDesigner lecture page, and its Image Displace lesson shows how to make a still image move by feeding a Noise TOP into a Displace TOP.
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