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Geometry effect

Cyber Grid

Cyber Grid is a kaleidoscope and geometry effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Neon perspective lattice projected through the image.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines — Source

The eye-in-triangle art under a perspective grid of cyan and magenta neon lines, dense at the bottom edge — Cyber Grid, default settings

What Cyber Grid does

Lays a neon perspective grid over the picture and scrolls it towards the viewer, packing the lines tight at the bottom edge and opening them out towards the top. The lines shade from cyan on the left to magenta on the right and burn brighter in a band just below the middle. Density squeezes the vertical lines closer, Lines thickens them, and Glow sets their brightness.

Using Cyber Grid

Where it works: Synthwave and retro-futurist sets, lyric videos and Reels that want a road-to-the-horizon feel over existing footage. The picture only dims slightly underneath, so a logo or a DJ's face still holds.
With the music: The grid scrolls by itself, and Speed sets the rate. B1 on Glow flashes the lines on every kick, while a bar-synced LFO on Density breathes the grid wider and tighter across the phrase.
Starting point: Density at centre, Lines at a quarter for thin wires, Glow at three-quarters and Speed at centre, then ease the Mix slider back if the picture sinks.

Controls

Density: Horizontal grid compression in perspective.
Lines: Grid line thickness vs glow.
Glow: Neon line intensity.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Cyber Grid