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Liquid effect

Holographic Foil

Holographic Foil is a liquid video effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Radial fake-view color shifts with noisy metallic foil shine.

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 illustration recoloured in a rainbow sweep, pink on the left and yellow-green on the right — Holographic Foil, default settings

What Holographic Foil does

Recolours the whole image through a rainbow that changes with angle around the centre, as if a foil card were tilting under a light, with fine metallic grain and glints over it. The virtual light circles slowly, so the colour sweep turns across the frame. Grain sets foil texture size, Shift how far the hue swings with viewing angle, Shine the highlight strength, and Tint the rainbow's start.

Using Holographic Foil

Where it works: Trading-card and sticker-style cover art, merch mockups, and logo stings that should look printed on foil. The colour is multiplied over the picture, so linework and darks stay intact.
With the music: B9 (air) on Shine flashes the glints with cymbals and open hats. For a slow pour of colour, run Tint from a free-running LFO so the foil's rainbow keeps shifting on its own.
Starting point: Grain centre, Shift three-quarters, Shine a quarter, Tint hard left, then turn Tint until the centre sits on the colour you want.

Controls

Grain: Fine foil noise frequency.
Shift: View-dependent hue sweep strength.
Shine: Specular highlight sharpness and strength.
Tint: Where the foil rainbow starts on the wheel.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Holographic Foil