Particles & POPs projects for TouchDesigner: 34 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
34 free project files
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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Derivative publishes CurriculumExamples, the official example files behind the TouchDesigner Curriculum at learn.derivative.ca, updated in May 2026.
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Black Pomeranian built this complete VJ system in TouchDesigner 2025.32050 and shares it free on GitHub, with a Japanese write-up on note.com explaining its structure.
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caro villeneuve shows how to make a quick network with the Ray POP operator in a short TouchDesigner tutorial. The project file, rayPOP.toe, was made in TouchDesigner 2025.31740, a build that includes POPs.
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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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harveymoon shares Pop Truss in the Derivative community Asset section, described as a parametric stage truss in the 12-inch standard.
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Derivative documents the Dome Viewer palette component, which previsualises dome-specific content and can generate a dome shell in POPs, and credits it to Fred Trétout's InsideDome.
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INFRA (theinfranet) shares the TouchDesigner Fulldome Simulator, a lightweight component that wraps any 2D or 3D visual onto a virtual dome to preview how it deforms in a real fulldome environment.
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Pablo Torri shares ParticleWhale.toe, the project file from his Particle Whale tutorial, saved in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370.
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Derivative distributes the official POPs Examples Package for TouchDesigner's Point Operators, the GPU-based geometry family introduced with the 2025 Experimental builds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Darien Brito shares TDXDepthCamMerger, a TouchDesigner component that merges the point clouds of several depth cameras into one coordinate space.
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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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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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mamo, who posts TouchDesigner tutorials in English and Japanese, shares a lyrics display tool made in this English-language episode.
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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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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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mamo's 26th tutorial, part A of a three-part 'Butterfly particles mapping' series, comes with its TouchDesigner .toe on Google Drive.
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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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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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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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keitlyn (@nyltiek) shares on Gumroad the TouchDesigner project file of a webcam particle effect shown in an Instagram post.
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