Free TouchDesigner Project: Physarum Simulation without GLSL (Josef Pelz)
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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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 VJ Class Files: TDSW Vol.057 & MUTEK.JP VJ System (komakinex)
komakinex shares the sample files of the VJing class taught at TouchDesigner Study Weekend (TDSW) Vol.057 on 15 May 2022.
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Free TouchDesigner 2021 Component: Flying Camera with Example Project (Noto The Talking Ball)
Noto The Talking Ball shares the free version of a flying camera component for TouchDesigner. The zip contains Noto_FREE_FLYING_CAMERA_free_version.tox and an example project file, made in TouchDesigner 2021.16410.
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Free TouchDesigner Refractive Raymarching File (Tim Gerritsen, TDSW)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: nanoKONTROL2 and nanoPAD2 MIDI Mapping (syoukera)
syoukera notes on Zenn that TouchDesigner stores MIDI mappings in /local/midi/userdevices, so they can be copied into another .toe file.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Animated UI Transitions with a Tweener Component (amazingrobot)
In part 3 of the UI Basics series on derivative.ca, amazingrobot shows how to use a Tweener class he created to add animated transitions to a custom touch screen UI from code.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Reusable Custom UI Buttons for Touch Screen Exhibits (amazingrobot)
amazingrobot starts a derivative.ca tutorial series on building custom user interfaces for end users, aimed at touch screen exhibits for museums and trade shows.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: 3D Matrix Code Visual with Texture Instancing (otodojo)
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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Free TouchDesigner MUTEK.JP 2021 Workshop File: Playing with Attributes & GLSL (kezzardrix)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Camera and Light Moving Along SOP Paths (Yasushi Noguchi)
Yasushi Noguchi covers cameras and lights in this Japanese class handout. In cameraLight.toe a Camera COMP looks at a box and travels along a Circle SOP path, and then along a Rectangle SOP bent by a Noise SOP, with an…
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Free TouchDesigner Project: SOP Instancing and an Audio Spectrum Visualiser (Yasushi Noguchi)
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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Free TouchDesigner Experiments: Chaotic Attractors, Drop Painting & Fractals (Davide De Marco)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: TOUCHDESIGNER Bible Book Example Files (Kawamura, Matsuoka, Morioka)
Seibundo Shinkosha, the publisher of the Japanese book "ビジュアルクリエイターのためのTOUCHDESIGNERバイブル" by Kenichi Kawamura, Yuki Matsuoka and Toyoshi Morioka, offers the book's example files on its Creators Map site. td_toe0827.zip…
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Free TouchDesigner Reaction-Diffusion Files (Simon Alexander-Adams)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: Interaction Display for Keys, Clicks and Hovered Parameters (elekktronaut)
elekktronaut (Bileam Tschepe) shares Interaction Display in the Derivative community Asset section, a free .tox made mainly for recording tutorials and running workshops.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: SRT Phone Stream In and Twitch RTMP Out (atltvhead)
atltvhead explains in this derivative.ca tutorial how to get a phone video stream over a cellular connection into TouchDesigner with SRT and out to Twitch over RTMP.
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Free TouchDesigner 2020 Project: Video Switcher, Eyedropper, Color and Motion Tracking (Noto The Talking Ball)
Noto The Talking Ball packs four small utilities from the TAKE IT ALL! video into one free TouchDesigner project. The video chapters cover a video switcher, an eyedropper, colour tracking and motion tracking.
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Free TouchDesigner 2020 Project Pack Vol.2: Instancing and Feedback (Noto The Talking Ball)
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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Free TouchDesigner Mutek 2021 Workshop: Instancing & Point Clouds
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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Free TouchDesigner Components: 25 GLSL Post Effect Shaders, Bloom to Kuwahara (ogrew)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Glowing Point Shape Instancing Example for PAGE Magazine (Mickey van Olst)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Un Deux Trois Generative Art Recreation, Spanish Tutorial (internetbigboi)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Triangular Mesh Generative Art Recreation, Spanish Tutorial (internetbigboi)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Cubic Disarray Generative Art Recreation, Spanish Tutorial (internetbigboi)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2025.31550 Components: TDXComponents Recorder, Comper, Masker, Timecode (Dylan Roscover)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Joy Division Generative Art Recreation, Spanish Tutorial (internetbigboi)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Tiled Lines Generative Art Recreation, Spanish Tutorial (internetbigboi)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2021.12380 Component: UberGui Web Render UI for Custom Parameters (Lucas Morgan)
Lucas Morgan (EnviralDesign) shares UberGui V4, a lightweight UI module for TouchDesigner that turns a component's existing custom parameters into a fast, styled control panel.
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Free TouchDesigner 2025.33070 Component: Multi Depth Camera Point Cloud Merger (Darien Brito)
Darien Brito shares TDXDepthCamMerger, a TouchDesigner component that merges the point clouds of several depth cameras into one coordinate space.
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Free TouchDesigner Laser Project: Multi-Laser Control over AVB with Laser CHOP (Daniel Dalfovo)
Daniel Dalfovo shares Laser.toe, a TouchDesigner patch that creates and colors shapes and sends the data to multiple lasers using the AVB protocol.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Arduino Stepper Motor Control with a TB6600 Driver (jakster)
jakster posted this derivative.ca tutorial on controlling a Nema 17 stepper motor from TouchDesigner through an Arduino and a TB6600 stepper driver.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Parametric Circle with a Python Script CHOP, Spanish Tutorial Part 3 (Akenbak)
In the last introductory part of his Spanish-language parametric equations series on derivative.ca, Akenbak draws the circle with code instead of operators, noting that fewer operators can save CPU.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Parametric Circle from CHOPs, Spanish Tutorial Part 1 (Akenbak)
Akenbak begins a Spanish-language series on derivative.ca about translating mathematical curves into TouchDesigner with CHOPs and Python.
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Free TouchDesigner 2025.31620 Component: Artio Multi-Display Pixel Mapping (The Experiential Co.)
The Experiential Co. shares Artio, a TouchDesigner component for building pixel-perfect pixel maps for multi-display layouts at live events and installations, under GPL-3.0.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: VHS Effect Custom Component (47vizn)
47vizn shows in this derivative.ca tutorial how to create VHS effects in TouchDesigner inside a custom component. The post attaches VHS#tutorial.toe with a test image and also links a Google Drive folder of example…
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Free TouchDesigner 2020 Project: Infinite Looping Torus with Instancing (Noto The Talking Ball)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: RayTK Raymarching Shader Toolkit (tekt)
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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Free TouchDesigner 2020 Project: Quantization Height Map (Noto The Talking Ball)
Noto The Talking Ball shares the project file from the Quantization Height Map tutorial, a Korean-subtitled video that thanks elekktronaut in its description.
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Free TouchDesigner Data Visualization Project: Space Debris Orbits from TLE Data (yumataesu)
yumataesu shares PLANETES, a TouchDesigner data visualization of the current positions and predicted orbits of space debris, including payloads and rocket bodies.
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Free TouchDesigner 2020 Project Pack Vol.1: Burn Material, Landscape, Mouse Reflection (Noto The Talking Ball)
Noto The Talking Ball, a TouchDesigner channel posting in English and Korean, gives away a first pack of three project files.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: OpenCV Camera & Projector Calibration (harveymoon)
GitHub user harveymoon shares a TouchDesigner add-on that calibrates a camera and projector pair using OpenCV, ported from ofxCvCameraProjectorCalibration.
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Free TouchDesigner 2022.25370 Project: nodeo NDI Media Server (The Experiential Co.)
The Experiential Co. shares nodeo, a media server application built in TouchDesigner for livestreams, permanent installations and events, released under GPL-3.0 as a public alpha.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Wavy Blocks Made with SOPs (Hukir)
Hukir posted this short tutorial on derivative.ca showing a simple technique for creating waves with SOPs in TouchDesigner.
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Free TouchDesigner 099 Project: Linea ROOM Kinect Line Drawing (Nima Gazestani)
Nima Gazestani, an interaction designer and instructor, shares Linea ROOM #1 as a TouchDesigner asset on the Derivative community site.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Instagram Live Streaming via Spout, OBS and Yellow Duck (Jacob)
Jacob walks through a simple live stream from TouchDesigner to Instagram in this derivative.ca tutorial. TouchDesigner sends its output as a Spout stream into Open Broadcaster Software, which broadcasts it over RTMP…
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Free TouchDesigner Project: NVIDIA Flex Fluid Tank with Bullet Solver Bodies (petitsapin)
petitsapin shares this quick tip on derivative.ca for creating a fluid tank with the NVIDIA Flex solver in TouchDesigner.
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Free TouchDesigner Material: Iridescent GLSL MAT (mickeyvanolst)
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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Free TouchDesigner Component: Cellular Automata and Game of Life Tutorial Files (Darien Brito)
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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Real-Time Video Capture with MIDI Control, Spanish Workshop Day 4 (videoso)
In day 4 of "Programacixn para Humanxs", a Spanish-language TouchDesigner marathon shared on derivative.ca, videoso covers basic techniques for capturing video in real time from internet sources and video capture…
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Joystick-Controlled Micromapping, Spanish Workshop Day 3 (videoso)
videoso posted this third session of "Programacixn para Humanxs", a Spanish-language TouchDesigner marathon, on derivative.ca.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: TD-MTL Multi-Layer Cue Timeline (Tim Franklin)
Tim Franklin shares TD-MTL, a general-purpose multi-layer timeline system for TouchDesigner made with Brian Alexander. The self-contained Multi_Layer_Timeline.tox in the release folder outputs timing and cue information…
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Free TouchDesigner Fragment Shadow Projection Files (TDSW Workshop)
Shunichi Kasahara and Satoru Higa share the sample files from TDSW #023, the online TouchDesigner workshop about 'Fragment Shadow', their optical-shadow installation at Ginza Sony Park built with 16 projectors, made in…
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Simple DMX Controller Example (alphamoonbase)
alphamoonbase shows in this derivative.ca tutorial how to build a DMX controller in TouchDesigner. The techniques covered are pattern matching, custom parameters and expressions, and the video walkthrough is linked in…
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Free TouchDesigner 2020.x+ Component: OSC Query Server for Custom Parameters (Jonglissimo)
Jonglissimo shares osc_query_server.tox, a TouchDesigner component that exposes the custom parameters of chosen containers through an OSC Query server.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: Swaggy Bokeh Physical Depth of Field GLSL Post Effect (_shandor)
_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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Free TouchDesigner Project: Fire Art Effect with Points and Triggers (mamo)
mamo is working through elemental effects such as fire, water, wind and earth in TouchDesigner, and this English-language tutorial makes the fire effect.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Interactive Matrix Transformation Pipeline Visualizer (lucasm)
lucasm wrote this guided, interactive overview on derivative.ca for anyone who wants to write shaders or manipulate transforms in a custom way and has run into matrices.
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Free TouchDesigner 2019.20140 Workshop Files: Live Visuals at VIVO Media Arts (chimanaco)
Yasushi Harada (chimanaco) shares the example files of his three-day 'TouchDesigner for Live Visuals' workshop at VIVO Media Arts in February 2020.
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Free TouchDesigner Component: MIDI CC Endless Encoder for Continuous Rotation (Fausto Brusamolino)
Fausto Brusamolino (FaustoB) shares a solution on the Derivative forum for using MIDI controllers with endless encoders, such as a Behringer BCR2000 or APC40 mk2, to drive a continuous rotation.
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Free TouchDesigner Project: Particle SOP and Ableton Live OSC Audiovisual Set (Satoru Higa)
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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