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Geometry effect

DMT Hexagons

DMT Hexagons is a kaleidoscope and geometry effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Hex tiles rotate and scale independently from image brightness.

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 broken into a mosaic of small rotated tiles with faint coloured seams — DMT Hexagons, default settings

What DMT Hexagons does

Cuts the picture into a honeycomb and turns each hex on its own, bright tiles spinning one way and dark tiles the other, faster the further they sit from mid-grey. Bright tiles also shrink their contents while dark ones zoom in, and every tile rim picks up a rainbow tint. Tiles sets cell density, Twist the rotation, and Spectrum how strong the rim colour is.

Using DMT Hexagons

Where it works: Visionary-art backdrops, peak-time loops and cover art for psychedelic releases. The spin follows the picture's own light, so a portrait breaks up in a different pattern from a logo or a landscape.
With the music: Tiles turn by themselves, and Speed sets the pace. Give B2 to Twist so the sub swings every tile further, and a beat-triggered Envelope on Tiles pops the honeycomb finer on each hit.
Starting point: Tiles at centre, Twist at a quarter, Spectrum at three-quarters, Speed under centre so the spin reads as drift.

Controls

Tiles: Hex cell density.
Twist: Per-tile rotation from brightness.
Spectrum: Edge spectrum vs raw tile mix.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with DMT Hexagons