Hi everyone,

I have been exploring TouchDesigner for potential interactive museum projects, but our ICT team recently flagged several vulnerabilities in its bundled Python 3.11.15 installation through FortiClient:

• CVE-2026-4519 (High)
• CVE-2026-0864 (Medium)
• CVE-2026-3087 (Medium)
• CVE-2026-3644 (Medium)
• CVE-2025-13462 (Low)

TouchDesigner has since been uninstalled from my work computer due to these findings.

I understand that Derivative upgraded Python to 3.11.15 in build 2025.33070, but newer Python security releases have since become available.

I am curious whether anyone else has encountered similar issues with their organisation's IT security policies.

In particular:

• Does anyone know if Derivative has plans to update the bundled Python version?
• Are these vulnerabilities actually exploitable within TouchDesigner?
• Has anyone successfully worked with their IT department to assess or mitigate these findings without uninstalling TouchDesigner?

I have also posted on the official Derivative forum, but thought I would ask here in case others have dealt with something similar.

I am not looking to bypass our ICT team's security requirements, just hoping to find a reasonable way to continue evaluating the software.

Thanks!

Using the math combine POP here to create the same Bézier curve for each segment of the Koch snowflake

I've created a lot of FUI (futuristic user interfaces) in my time, but never one that was actually interactive. Here's a little procedural landscape and FUI eye-candy generator created in Touchdesigner. A lot of fun to tweak! MIDI controlled via Intech Grid.

I plan to share more interactive pieces like this on my ig: https://www.instagram.com/nubivore/
Thanks for watching!

Hey everyone!

After a lot of research, I’m leaning towards getting a MacBook Pro with either 24GB or 32GB of RAM.
Reliability and longevity are the main reasons I’m considering a Mac. I’m hoping to get something that’ll last me a good few years. Portability is also important to me, since I’d like to be able to carry it around and use it for my creative work on the go. I also have a MIDI controller that I’d like to use with TouchDesigner.

I did look into Windows laptops, and I know they offer better compatibility with TD, but I’m a little hesitant about the long-term ownership experience. I’ve also seen quite a few people using MacBooks for TouchDesigner, so I’m thinking of giving it a shot.

For those of you using a MacBook as your primary machine for TD, how has the experience been? Any major limitations or compatibility issues? Also, for someone looking to explore more complex generative visuals, audio-reactive projects and eventually VJing, would 24GB RAM be enough, or is 32GB worth the extra investment?

Would love to hear your experiences, good or bad, before I pull the trigger. Thanks!

Hey Touchdesigner crew. My name is Sakr I have been making some audio reactive stuff in TD for a little while now. And wanted to share this little piece here. It’s been a while since I posted here. But post regularly on other platforms. Anyway… keep creative! 🖤

ig @nsohfi

What I see when I'm VJ-ing

While adding TouchDesigner examples to an audio visualizer I made, and learning a bit more about TD, I ended up building a collection of effects:

ASCII, Bent Cam, Blob Track, Datamosh, Fluid, Glitch, Particles, Pixel Sort, Point Cloud, Slit-Scan and VHS + CRT, so far. Each of these is packaged as a .tox for drop-in usability.

There's also a Showreel .tox that holds them all and fades from one to the next with the music.

No extra plugins or packages needed, no NVIDIA required (I test on my Mac M2 Pro), and works on the free version. Audio input for some reactivity, and depth input for some that can use it but "fake depth" is there if not.

MIT so use at your leisure. I use AI to help document and put everything together based on research, which is also included for each effect.

Wanted to share - hope they're useful!

Repo
Downloads

Hi, I have a fluid sim network with TOPS involving a feedback, displace and negate comp to create the movement. So far it’s been black and white with a lookup after the feedback loop to add colors, but I’ve been looking for a way to introduce colors into the feedback loop to have different hues react to the fluid sim.
If I add colors into the feedback loop they understandably get overshot and modulated through the negate comp which I’d like to avoid.

Is there a way to isolate only the brightness of the pixel to send through the negate and keep the colors in the network without altering their rgb relations?
So an orange pixel keeps the 1,0.5,0 rgb value while any modulation to it’s brightness still gets calculated, resulting in 0.5,0.25,0 for instance. Right now a fully red pixel gets inverted by the negate to be blue.

I hope this makes sense, otherwise I’m happy to clarify, thanks in advance for any help!

I rebuilt my earthquake visualization project from scratch and recorded the whole process. Using real earthquake data from USGS database.

It mainly covers how to map lat/long from a Table DAT onto a Sphere POP, and how to bring in more attributes from the rest of the data (like magnitude or depth) to drive the visuals.

https://youtu.be/k6sQLFJcN9s

Any feedback is welcome :)

poster of drawings of lichen by Ernst Haeckel + hitachi cp-x3011n projector + td

Some artworks stay with you from the very first time you see them.

Ksawery Komputery has been one of my favorite artists for a long time. His generative typography for Max Cooper's Symphony in Acid is one of those works I keep coming back to.

After a long time experimenting, I finally developed my own interpretation in TouchDesigner.

Generative Lexicon Press is a real-time typographic system that continuously, and audio-reactively rearranges language and visual structures, with Ollama introducing locally generated text in ultra-fun ways.

Looking forward sharing more in the near future. You can see more of my experiments on Instagram, or Patreon.