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Mandel Dive applied to FRCTL's test image: A permanent dive into the Mandelbrot set — it falls toward one landmark until the detail runs out, and is already falling somewhere else by the time it does.

Tunnels effect

Mandel Dive

A permanent dive into the Mandelbrot set — it falls toward one landmark until the detail runs out, and is already falling somewhere else by the time it does.

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.

Controls

Zoom
How far each dive travels before the next takes over.
Wander
How far each dive strays from its landmark. At zero it falls dead-centre into the famous coordinates; up high it hunts around them and finds its own.
Detail
How long a point is followed before it is called trapped. This is the one that decides how deep the dive still looks like something rather than like a flat plate.
Tint
Where the palette starts on the wheel.
Spread
How fast the palette cycles through the escape bands.
Glow
Light thrown along the band edges.
Blend
Weight of the dive over the picture underneath.
Speed
Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.