Instancing projects for TouchDesigner: 32 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
32 free project files
Tender World shares Gaia Stellar, an audiovisual piece in which each sphere represents a known star. The post explains that a minimal set of stars within a limited magnitude range was downloaded from the HYG database…
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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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anya maryina's Bus Seat tutorial project recreates the busy generative fabric patterns found on bus seats using TouchDesigner instancing.
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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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Samo shares four TouchDesigner files with his Glitch Strobe Displaced Trails video. The public Patreon post holds 42_circuitBending.toe, GLITCH IN COLOR.toe, shape_strobe_thing.toe and WavesInstancing.toe.
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nicholaspjm shared this project file for free as a thank-you for reaching 1,000 YouTube subscribers. It is a basic instance-based particle simulation that reacts to audio, with post-processing effects left open for…
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Lucie Mrc shares an illustrated tutorial with example files on using the MediaPipe TouchDesigner plugin to turn webcam tracking data into interactions.
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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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SudoMagic shares the files of a two-day public TouchDesigner workshop held at Carnegie Mellon's Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.
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Gwangyu Lee of be sound be visionary shares the 27 .toe project files that accompany the Korean-language book 'be sound be visionary TouchDesigner Guide' (ISBN 979-11-983532-0-7), released on 13 June 2023.
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In lesson 7 of her Korean TouchDesigner course on Notion, Sumin Kim builds point clouds with geometry instancing in two parts, one sampling a 2D image and one driven by 2D noise.
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Matt Ross's Lego Brick Instancing tutorial project for TouchDesigner starts by modeling a single Lego brick from SOPs and then instances a whole grid of them.
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Akira Nakayasu publishes these class notes on driving TouchDesigner with the Azure Kinect DK, from the Kinect Azure TOP and Select TOP to the 99 body-tracking data points received by the Kinect Azure CHOP.
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Yasushi Noguchi walks through a data visualisation of one year of daily temperatures in this Japanese class handout. The CSV is read into a Table DAT, normalised with an Evaluate DAT, turned into a channel with DAT to…
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otodojo put together this derivative.ca tutorial for a 3D visual in the style of Matrix code. It uses 3D texture instancing and Analyze-based reactivity, techniques the author says were adapted from Paketa12.
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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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Noto The Talking Ball shares a second free pack of TouchDesigner projects. PACK 02.zip contains Hexagon instancing.toe, Mouse light feedback.toe and TOP based instancing particle.toe plus a read-me, made in…
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Derivative's Markus Heckmann and Isabelle Rousset, together with Tolch and Paola G. Olea, ran this TouchDesigner workshop for Mutek Buenos Aires and Barcelona in 2021 and published the files on the official…
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Mickey van Olst, an artist connected to Amsterdam and Berlin, shared this example file on derivative.ca to accompany an introductory TouchDesigner article in the German edition of PAGE magazine.
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Noto The Talking Ball shares the project file from the Infinite Looping Torus tutorial, which has Korean subtitles. The video chapters cover setting up instancing, adding colour with a Colour Lovers palette picker and…
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Satoru Higa posted this file for lesson 15 of TDWS2019, his TouchDesigner workshop at Tokyo University of the Arts. day15.toe walks through Particle SOP setups for random emission points, animated birth rate…
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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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Greg Finger shares Cortex, a TouchDesigner project that turns stacks of MRI scan slices into a voxelized, distortable model. cortex.toe comes preloaded with three MRI sets, and the Scan_Master component can read any…
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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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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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Matthew Ragan's TD-Examples, with contributions from Ian Shelanskey and Barak Koren, is a large GitHub library of 77 .toe and roughly 200 .tox example networks for TouchDesigner from 2015 to 2018.
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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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Elburz Sorkhabi and The Interactive & Immersive HQ publish the source of the open-source book 'An Introduction to TouchDesigner' on GitHub, including all of its example files.
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