Free TouchDesigner Pen Plotter Class Files: L-Systems & SVG Drawing (Gwangyu Lee)
Gwangyu Lee shares the project files of his 2025 class on working with a pen plotter in TouchDesigner, taught at Gunpo Media Center.
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Free TouchDesigner projects (.toe) and components (.tox) from Derivative, course teachers and the community: audio-reactive visuals, GLSL, particles and POPs, projection mapping, VJ setups and Kinect or MIDI control.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: AKAI APC mini mk2 LED Mapping with Toggle and Momentary Buttons (guillermoalmo)
guillermoalmo shares a patch for the AKAI APC mini mk2 in the Derivative community Asset section, made because none of the controller's LEDs gave light feedback when it was not used with Ableton.
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Free TouchDesigner Tutorial Files: GLSL, Instancing, Kinect (exsstas)
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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Free TouchDesigner File: PNG Image to particlesGpu (anya maryina)
In this anya maryina tutorial project for TouchDesigner, a .PNG image becomes the source for a GPU particle system. The network explains the Reorder TOP and uses it to convert image pixels into position and color data…
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Free TouchDesigner Project Set: Glitch, Strobe and Displaced Trails (Samo)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Audio-Reactive Instanced Particles (nicholaspjm)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2023.11760 Component: PLATEAU 3D City Model CityGML Importer (Project PLATEAU, MLIT)
Project PLATEAU of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism publishes this TouchDesigner tool, developed by BASSDRUM, for working with PLATEAU 3D city model data.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Simple Audio-Reactive Particle Sphere for Beginners (nicholaspjm)
nicholaspjm releases a free, beginner-friendly audio-reactive particle simulation for TouchDesigner. The post says the file breaks down how the project works and lets you play around and develop your first particle sim…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: CMYK Halftone Dot Filter GLSL Print Effect (meatwithdreams)
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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Free TouchDesigner GLSL Raymarching Templates & Tutorials (exsstas)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Particle SOP, Feedback Glow and Mouse-Attracted Particles (Yasushi Noguchi)
Yasushi Noguchi publishes this Japanese class handout on particles in TouchDesigner, built step by step around the Particle SOP. particleIntro.3.toe emits particles from a randomly sorted Line SOP with turbulence…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: MIDI and Audio File Synchronizer v1.5 (Factory Settings)
Factory Settings shares version 1.5 of its MIDI / audio file synchroniser TOX for TouchDesigner for free. The update adds multiple channel support, an enhanced UI, a playback indicator and playback that runs separately…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: BPM Sequencer Tap-Tempo for VJing (Factory Settings)
Factory Settings shares a free BPM Sequencer TOX for TouchDesigner. You tap along with the beat, it shows the clicks per minute and then outputs incrementing CHOP channels for every 1st, 4th, 8th, 16th and 32nd beat…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: MIDI Synthesizers & Spectroscope Visualizers (Gwangyu Lee)
Gwangyu Lee shares TouchDesigner X Computer Music, a set of .tox files for computer musicians. It contains three synthesizers, SimpleSynth, AdditiveSynth and ModulationSynth, that are played from a MIDI In CHOP and sent…
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Free TouchDesigner 2023 Component: TouchDiffusion Real-Time Stable Diffusion (olegchomp)
olegchomp shares TouchDiffusion, a TouchDesigner component for real-time Stable Diffusion generation built on StreamDiffusion.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Interactive Windows with the Window COMP (ETCH-01)
ETCH-01 shows in this derivative.ca tutorial how to use the Window COMP as an interactive element in TouchDesigner. The workflow covers creating a simple point cloud, making cameras follow objects, using operator…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Wallin Pattern Generator for LED Wall Test Patterns with Examples (Mallin)
Mallin shares Wallin Pattern Generator in the Derivative community Asset section, a pattern generator primarily intended for single-image, interactive test patterns on large LED walls and LED volumes, which the post…
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Free TouchDesigner GLSL Particle Swarm Project with Interactive GUI (heysoos)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Glowing Smoke Text with Multiple Feedback Loops (Samo)
Samo shares the file behind his Glowing Smoke Text Logo Vapor Feedback video, noting in the description that this one is free.
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Free TouchDesigner MediaPipe Tutorial & Hand Tracking Example Files (Lucie Mrc)
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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Free TouchDesigner Instancing Techniques Catalog (Matthew Ragan / MIR)
Matthew Ragan and MIR (Materializing Interactive Research) publish touchdesigner-instancing-examples, a GitHub catalog of geometry instancing techniques for TouchDesigner.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Gaussian Splatting PLY Renderer (Tim Gerritsen)
Tim Gerritsen (y=f(x) lab) shares a Gaussian Splatting component in the Derivative community Asset section. Inside the tox is a Render TOP setup that renders a loaded Gaussian-splatted .PLY file, selected in the…
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Free TouchDesigner 2021.16410 Project: GeoPix LED & DMX Lighting Control and Previz (Lucas Morgan)
Lucas Morgan (EnviralDesign) develops GeoPix, an open-source real-time lighting control and previsualization application built in TouchDesigner and released under the MIT license.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Sequence Animator for Camera Shot Sequences with Example (greenrhyno)
greenrhyno shares the SequenceAnimator COMP in the Derivative community Asset section, a component made to animate camera sequences for 3D scenes with less setup.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: CRT TV Filter GLSL RGB Pixel Simulator (greenrhyno)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Data Entropy Visual (Paul Andrew)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: designer.tox Poster Layout Tool with Tutorial File (elekktronaut)
Bileam Tschepe (elekktronaut) shares designer.tox, a custom component for simple and quick layouts in TouchDesigner that handles text, images and logos as well as different resolutions, grids and scaling.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: UNWRAPPER 2.0 SOP to TOP Texture Encoding for GLSL (Unveil_studio)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: PROMOTE Custom Parameter Creation by Shortcut (Unveil_studio)
Unveil_studio (Simone Franco) shares the first version of Promote in the Derivative community Asset section. The component enables the rapid creation of custom parameters using a customizable keyboard shortcut.
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Free TouchDesigner Interactive Art Course Files (Gwangyu Lee)
Gwangyu Lee and Eunhwa Lee share the project files from their Korean-language course 'Interactive Art with TouchDesigner', held at Gunpo Media Center from 24 October to 30 November 2023.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: 3D Gaussian Splatting Rasterizer Toolkit (Yea Chen)
Yea Chen (yeataro) shares a TouchDesigner implementation of a 3D Gaussian splatting rasterizer based on the paper '3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering'.
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Free TouchDesigner Port of The Book of Shaders: GLSL Examples (Ragan)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2022.35320 Workshop Files: CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry 2023 (SudoMagic)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: TDVJ VJ Mixer for External TOX Files (Marius Jopen)
Marius Jopen shares TDVJ, a simple VJ mixer built in TouchDesigner that loads external TOX files with custom parameters.
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Free TouchDesigner 2022.32660 Component: chainGpu GPU Chain Physics for Plants & Hair (Mickey van Olst)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: GPU MediaPipe Face, Hand & Pose Tracking (Torin Blankensmith)
Torin Blankensmith shares this MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner on GitHub under the MIT license. The main MediaPipe.tox runs Google's MediaPipe vision models on the GPU inside an embedded Chromium browser and outputs…
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Free TouchDesigner 2023.11880+ Component: FunctionStore Workflow & UX Tools (Daniel Molnar)
Daniel Molnar (Function Store) shares FunctionStore_tools, a collection of TouchDesigner workflow tools and UX hacks packed into a single FunctionStore_tools_2023.tox.
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Free TouchDesigner Audiovisual Class Files: Audio-Reactive 2D/3D, Particles, Max/MSP (Gwangyu Lee)
Gwangyu Lee shares the project files of his 2022 advanced TouchDesigner class on audiovisuals, held at MARTE Lab, Dongguk University in Seoul.
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Free TouchDesigner Book Project Files: be sound be visionary Guide
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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Free TouchDesigner MIDI Visuals Setup: Ableton Live & Orca (elizasj)
Eliza SJ (elizasj) shares Stereolux2023.toe, the project file from the 2023 Stereolux workshop 'Audio Reactive Visuals with TouchDesigner, Ableton & Orca', built for TouchDesigner 2022.31030 and later.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: WaveTOP Wave Equation Water Simulation in TOPs (Tim Gerritsen)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: quadReproject Sample Scene for LED Screens (Official, Derivative)
Derivative documents the quadReproject palette component, which uses the quad reprojection feature of the Camera COMP to render pixel-perfect images for one or more LED screens from any viewing position.
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Free TouchDesigner Components: TD as Game Engine First-Person Camera, Zones and Audio (Blake Marques Carrington)
Blake Marques Carrington shares four components from a very large TouchDesigner project, over 6000 operators, that uses TouchDesigner as a first-person, game-like experience for installation and performance.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Image and Noise Point Clouds with Instancing (Sumin Kim)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: CuryCue Cue-Based Show Control for Theater & Installations (Evgeniy Afonin)
Evgeniy Afonin (Curiosity Media Lab) shares CuryCue, a cue-based control system built in TouchDesigner for theater performances, installations and interactive multimedia shows, with logic inspired by QLab and lighting…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Shadertoy2TD Shadertoy URL to Network Converter (devart.space)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Audio Reactive CHOP Editing Lesson (Sumin Kim)
Sumin Kim's fourth lesson in her Korean TouchDesigner course on Notion covers audio-reactive visuals in four parts: audio editing, visuals that react to the audio, audio driving noise and work built on the spectrum.…
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Feedback Loop with a Rotating Transform TOP (Sumin Kim)
In the second lesson of her Korean TouchDesigner course on Notion, Sumin Kim slows a feedback loop down step by step to show how a Transform TOP inside the Feedback TOP system copies and rotates a circle on every frame.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: TOP and CHOP Basics Lesson with Assignments (Sumin Kim)
Sumin Kim teaches this first lesson of a Korean-language TouchDesigner course published on Notion, following the curriculum she used in class.
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Free TouchDesigner GLSL Post Effects: Bloom, DoF, SSAO, SSR (Hoshino)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2022 Workshop Files: Arduino Serial, Sensors & IMU (ITP/IMA)
This repository holds the material of an intro workshop for ITP/IMA on connecting an Arduino to TouchDesigner through serial communication.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Delaying Python Code with run() Examples (Ivan DelSol)
Ivan DelSol explains in this derivative.ca tutorial how to run Python code with a delay in TouchDesigner using the global run function.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Lego Brick Texture Instancing (Matt Ross)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: LygiaTD Offline LYGIA GLSL Shader Library (Victor Saiz)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: Lygia Shader Library Include Resolver with Examples (LeithBA)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: Glitch Effect TOX Set, RGB & Pixel Motion Glitch (FTD)
FTD (FollowTheDarkside) shares four glitch-effect components for TouchDesigner: GlitchEffect, GlitchEffect2, PixelMotionGlitch and RGB_Glitch.
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Free TouchDesigner GLSL Fluid Simulation: touchFluid (Kurt Kaminski)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Azure Kinect DK Body Tracking Samples (Akira Nakayasu)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2023.12230 Component: Warpa Projection Mapping Tool (Richard Burns)
Richard Burns shares Warpa, a projection mapping tool for TouchDesigner that his SimpleMixer README describes as a polygon drawing and warping tool.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: CSV Temperature Data Visualisation with Instancing (Yasushi Noguchi)
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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