GLSL projects for TouchDesigner: 55 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
55 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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Artcraft shares Grid POP LOD in the Derivative community Asset section, a geometry-clipmap style LOD plane with dense tessellation near the camera and coarse tessellation far away.
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Atsushi Tadokoro (tado) of Tokyo University of the Arts publishes tdexamples, the TouchDesigner files for his course 'Media Art Programming I', updated in July 2026.
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Stanislav Glazov (exsstas) shares a real-time diffuse lighting toolkit for TouchDesigner based on L2 spherical harmonics, which stores incoming light as 27 numbers per probe in a 3D world-space grid.
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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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Theo_Rosemffet shares two .tox components in the Derivative community Asset section that recreate the famous Droste Effect and Infinite Regression with GLSL.
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offlineartisan shares a set of toxes in the Derivative community Asset section that make it easy to use the OKLCh color space in TouchDesigner.
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Chaosandlogic shares UberRamp in the Derivative community Asset section, a GLSL TOP that generates rich 2D and 3D procedural patterns with up to three texture inputs: two color ramps and an optional control map.
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Dario Pagliaricci shares about 130 Shadertoy GLSL shaders that he ported and adapted to TouchDesigner, each in its own folder with the .toe file and the textures it needs.
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David Braun (DBraun) shares TouchDesigner_Shared, a GitHub collection of 30 .toe 'Starters' and 107 utility .tox files, updated in April 2025.
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paketa12 shares the fluid simulation system presented on day two of the TouchDesigner meetup in Berlin in May 2024 as a project file in the Derivative community Asset section.
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Stanislav Glazov (exsstas) gathers every project file from his 2019 to 2021 TouchDesigner YouTube tutorials on GitHub, formerly Patreon-only files included, with a README matching files to videos.
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meatwithdreams shares a CMYK Halftone Dot Filter in the Derivative community Asset section, made for promotional artwork with an old-magazine concept.
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Stanislav Glazov (exsstas) maintains Raymarching-in-TD, a GitHub set of 17 .toe files for GLSL raymarching inside TouchDesigner, updated in August 2024.
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GitHub user heysoos shares a particle swarm system written as a GLSL shader and run in TouchDesigner with an interactive GUI.
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Matthew Ragan and MIR (Materializing Interactive Research) publish touchdesigner-instancing-examples, a GitHub catalog of geometry instancing techniques for TouchDesigner.
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greenrhyno shares CRT TV Filter in the Derivative community Asset section, a GLSL-based CRT TV simulator made while rendering a close-up of a realistic old CRT TV.
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Unveil_studio (Simone Franco) shares the updated Unwrapper COMP in the Derivative community Asset section, which translates SOP data into TOPs without using CHOPs.
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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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Mickey van Olst shares chainGpu, a TouchDesigner component that simulates chain-like physics on the GPU with a compute shader, suited to flowers, plants, grass, tentacles, hair and trees.
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Tim Gerritsen (y=f(x) lab) shares WaveTOP in the Derivative community Asset section, an implementation of the wave equation using only TOPs with no custom GLSL.
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devart.space shares Shadertoy2TD in the Derivative community Asset section, a component that generates a TouchDesigner network from a Shadertoy URL.
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Yasuhiro Hoshino's TouchDesigner_PostEffects is a GitHub set of six GLSL post-processing effects for TouchDesigner, first built in 2019 and updated in February 2023.
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Victor Saiz shares LygiaTD, a TouchDesigner-native port of Patricio Gonzalez Vivo's LYGIA shader library. The lygia-1.3.0.tox bundles every library file as a pre-populated Text DAT, so shaders pull in functions through…
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LeithBA brings LYGIA, the reusable shader function library created by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, to TouchDesigner in the Derivative community Asset section.
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FTD (FollowTheDarkside) shares four glitch-effect components for TouchDesigner: GlitchEffect, GlitchEffect2, PixelMotionGlitch and RGB_Glitch.
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Kurt Kaminski (kamindustries) wrote touchFluid, a lightweight 2D GLSL fluid solver for TouchDesigner that began as a 2016 UCSB MAT master's project and was updated in 2022.
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Josef Pelz (josefpelz) shares a quick implementation of a physarum system in the Derivative community Asset section that uses no GLSL at all.
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Tim Gerritsen of y=f(x) lab shares workshop.Refractive_Raymarching.20-02-2022.toe, the project file from his free TDSW live-streamed workshop 'Refractive raymarching' (TDSW Vol.053, 20 February 2022).
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kezzardrix shares the example files of 'Playing with attributes', a TouchDesigner workshop in MUTEK.JP 2021's Digi Lab program. main.toe covers basic attribute techniques and GLSL tricks, using point, primitive and…
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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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ayato (ogrew) shares a set of GLSL post-effect shaders for TouchDesigner, each packaged as a small .tox in its own folder with a preview image.
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Dylan Roscover shares TDXComponents, a collection of nine everyday TouchDesigner components released under GPL-3.0. Chop Recorder records multi-channel CHOPs such as LiDAR or MIDI data to disk for later playback, Color…
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Tommy Etkin (tekt) develops RayTK, a library of TouchDesigner components that construct raymarching shaders from networks of operator COMPs called ROPs.
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mickeyvanolst shares a basic setup of a GLSL MAT with iridescence in the Derivative community Asset section. The download is a single component, iridescence_mickey.tox (12.88 KB), tagged iridescence and GLSL MAT.
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_shandor shares Swaggy Bokeh in the Derivative community Asset section, a GLSL TouchDesigner implementation of Martins Upitis' physical depth of field post-processing effect.
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Matthew Wachter shares td-shadertoy.toe, a set of TouchDesigner components that convert and browse Shadertoy shaders through the Shadertoy API.
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Vincent Houzé taught the workshop Introduction to GLSL in TouchDesigner at Brooklyn Research on 14 July 2018 and shared its recording as an 8-part YouTube series, linked from this derivative.ca post.
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Aaron Curtis (xenoguy) shares kinectfluids.toe, a TouchDesigner port of Pavel Dobryakov's WebGL fluid simulation that takes hand positions from a Kinect v2.
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Matthew Ragan's learningGLSL repository, with contributions from Vincent Houzé and Mike Walczyk, is a set of working study files for learning GLSL inside TouchDesigner 099.
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Satoru Higa shares ShaderBuilder, an on-the-fly shader editing tool for TouchDesigner released under the MIT license. After ShaderBuilder.tox is placed in a project, Ctrl+Shift+B opens the ShaderBuilder palette, and its…
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Darien Brito and Tim Gerritsen share TDNeuron, a deep learning framework built from scratch in TouchDesigner that runs its layers on GLSL pixel and compute shaders.
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L05 shares a collection of TouchDesigner tools and examples built with operators, GLSL and Python. The tools include a Kinect floor tracker that returns blob-tracking data and can send it to a networked receiver, a…
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AMAGI (fand) shares the project files of the TouchDesigner workshop he taught at MUTEK 2018. glslEffects.toe comes with GLSL post-effect components for ASCII art, chromatic aberration, RGB shift and a VHS look, plus a…
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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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Landon Looper (loopervfx) shares normals_gpu.toe, a demonstration of world-space normal computation techniques with geometry shaders, created for a talk at TouchIn NYC in May 2018.
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Marcin Biegun shares isfParser.tox, a TouchDesigner component that runs ISF (Interactive Shader Format) generators and filters, the GLSL wrapper format used by VJ software.
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Ayumu Nagamatsu (nama-gatsuo) shares the refined material of SPEKTRA Vol.4.0.0, a workshop on programming GPU-based real-time graphics with TouchDesigner held at MTRL Kyoto in May 2018.
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Noah Norman (ancillarymagnet) shares a Navier-Stokes fluid simulation built in TouchDesigner with GLSL, crediting Jos Stam, GPU Gems and PixelFlow as sources.
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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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Andrin Rehmann shares astra.3.toe, a pseudo-3D music visualisation in TouchDesigner that runs on GLSL compute shaders. The README states that it requires TouchDesigner 099 and a GPU that supports GLSL 4.3 or higher, and…
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Toyoshi Morioka shares PixelStorm, a GPU-based particle toolkit for TouchDesigner built from container components. FunctionTOP containers apply GLSL built-in functions to particle data textures, geometry containers…
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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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