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Light & lasers effect

Lasers Low

Lasers Low is a neon and laser effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Concert-style laser fans from both bottom corners.

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 with green laser beams fanning up from both bottom corners and crossing over the triangle — Lasers Low, default settings

What Lasers Low does

Two rigs in the bottom corners each throw a fan of five beams up and inward, crossing in the upper half of the frame. Every beam swings on its own slow sine, about once every two seconds at centre Speed, plus a small twitch, so the fans open, close and scissor rather than moving as one. Sweep widens the fan and swing, Beams lengthens and thickens each beam.

Using Lasers Low

Where it works: Pick Low for the floor-rig look, beams rising out of the stage, especially over a crowd shot or when the bottom corners of your picture are empty. It suits a build into the drop and a mainstage-style cover.
With the music: Beam motion is clocked, not beat-locked, so tune Speed by ear until a swing takes about a bar. Then send B1 kick to Beams so every kick throws the beams longer and brighter.
Starting point: Beams at centre, Sweep at a quarter, Speed at a quarter, so ten slow beams rise from the bottom corners and cross the frame.

Controls

Beams: Beam core width and reach.
Sweep: Fan spread, sweep, and twitch motion.
Speed: Oscillation and sweep motion speed.
Hue: Laser beam color.

Pairs well with Lasers Low