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Light & lasers effect

Neon Particle Field

Neon Particle Field is a neon and laser effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Procedural floating neon particle field with additive sparkles.

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 sprinkled with tiny multicoloured neon specks across the whole frame — Neon Particle Field, default settings

What Neon Particle Field does

Scatters three layers of small neon dots over the picture, each layer a different size and drifting at its own rate, so the field has parallax as it rises and creeps sideways. Colours come from a slowly shifting rainbow, and a faint coloured haze can sit behind them. Density packs in more and smaller dots, Spark sets their brightness, Haze the fog, and Direction which way they travel.

Using Neon Particle Field

Where it works: Ambient intros, space-themed covers and loop packs that need gentle constant motion without touching the picture, since the dots only add light on top.
With the music: The drift is clocked. Put B8 hats on Spark so the dots twinkle on the hats, and a slow LFO on Haze to let the fog breathe in and out behind them.
Starting point: Density at centre, Spark at three-quarters, Haze at a quarter, Direction on Up for a slow rising field.

Controls

Density: Particle grid scale vs intensity.
Spark: Neon sparkle add strength.
Haze: Background spectral haze strength.
Direction: Which way the particles drift.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Neon Particle Field