Infinite Portal is a tunnel and feedback effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Forward-rushing wormhole with pulsing walls and outward energy streaks.
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.
Wraps the picture onto the walls of a tunnel that rushes toward you, twisted into a spiral, with a second copy in rotated colour channels layered through it. The walls pulse as they pass. Tunnel lights eleven rainbow ribs and travelling rings on the walls, Streak fires light rays outward, and Rim brings the untouched source back into the mouth at the centre.
Using Infinite Portal
Where it works
A drop or a set opener where the frame should feel like it's pulling the room forward. The source dissolves almost completely, so feed it textured material rather than a logo that has to be read.
With the music
The rush and the wall pulse keep their own time and ignore the music. B1 (kick) on Streak fires rays out of the tunnel on every kick, and a beat-triggered Envelope on Rim flashes the source into the mouth.
Starting point
Tunnel centre, Streak a quarter, Rim three-quarters so the source holds the middle, then raise Tunnel until the ribs show.
Controls
Tunnel
Wall spectral rib and ring glow strength.
Streak
Outward streak blend and offset reach.
Rim
Center mouth blend and rim spectral add.
Speed
Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.