What if a video frame could be a musical instrument? In this TouchDesigner tutorial, you'll learn how to turn still images and moving video into playable sound using wavetable sonification, a technique at the crossroads of image sonification, raster scanning, and graphic sound synthesis.
Step away from your desk and monitor your installation remotely with Tailscale and RustDesk.Together, and combined with their free mobile apps, the two achieve the impossible: TouchDesigner on your smartphone!
Hi everyone, Here is the first release after a very long pause: a diffuse lighting toolkit for TouchDesigner, based on spherical harmonics, together with three videos that explain what this thing is, how it works, and how to use it without developing a sudden emotional attachment to basis functions.
DINOv3 is Meta's newest vision foundation model — it looks at an image and turns every patch into a 384-dimensional "semantic feature." No labels, no training, no captions. It just knows what things are. What it does TOP in → TOP out. Wire any image/video TOP into it.
A TouchDesigner TOX wrapping Roboflow's RF-DETR transformer model with a GPU-composited render path and a zero-Python-thread architecture. Ten model variants (4 detection + 6 segmentation, all COCO-pretrained) swap from a dropdown.
Stream LiDAR/TrueDepth video over NDI, capture Point Cloud Photos, and send body, hand, face, motion, audio, speech, AirPods, and Apple Watch data as OSC — straight into TouchDesigner over Wi-Fi. No cables. No cloud. No accounts.
A drop-in TouchDesigner component for building wavefield visualisations from a library of seventeen wave equations across twelve source shapes and six instancing modes. It is audio reactive, LiDAR ready, and entirely driven by custom parameters on the TOX itself.
Built a single TOX that wraps Spotify's Basic Pitch polyphonic-transcription model and exposes it as proper TD-native I/O: One CHOP input — any audio source outActive CHOP: 128 channels (ch1n0..ch1n127), one per MIDI pitch with current velocity. Wire to instancing, GLSL, DMX, midiout — anything.
In this tutorial, we will explore a powerful Houdini to TouchDesigner pipeline that allows us to create complex attributes in Houdini that later on we can modify and recombine in POPs in TouchDesigner using the Math Combine node. The result is a real-time animated Voronoi fracture.
In today’s video, Joel will recreate the Lag component from the world of CHOPs and recreate it in POPs, to smoothly blend attributes.
Explore the intersection of procedural geometry, advanced material workflows, and real-time audio analysis. In this comprehensive TouchDesigner tutorial, you'll establish a 3D base geometry and master instancing techniques to control position, scale, and color variation at scale.
In today's video we will look into Bileam's "Orthographic Boxes" tutorial from a years back (before the existance of TOP instancing) and use it as a base to build our own POP based system.
Regular camera viewers are hard to control in TouchDesigner, but there's a better option! Learn about the cameraViewport component which has lots of neat interactive features. https://youtu.be/a77tWHOW008
Learn how to build a viral blob tracking effect from scratch in TouchDesigner — completely free. In this full project walkthrough, you'll learn the fundamentals of blob tracking, how to connect it to visual effects, and how to create a polished, shareable result without any paid plugins or assets.
In this video we'll show you how to get started with face tracking with MediaPipe in TouchDesigner (changing states with facial movement).
In this video, Jack DiLaura walks you through the basics of POP Attributes. You’ll learn about common naming conventions, sizes, and data types before diving into several practical examples that showcase various attributes in use.
Learn how to import and render FBX models in TouchDesigner, then take things further by transforming the model into a dynamic point cloud.
Build a virtual flip-dot / flip-disc style display in TouchDesigner using POPs, feedback loops, dithering, and real-time 3D rendering techniques.
In this tutorial we start by building the basic stage for our particle system. First, we create the 3D space where everything will happen, add materials to make our particles look interesting, and think about how we want our particle system to work.
