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Glitch effect

Neural Static

Neural Static is a glitch video effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Recursive edge enhancement creates abstract eyes and spiral noise.

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 oversharpened, its wavy lines crackling with bright outlines and speckled colour — Neural Static, default settings

What Neural Static does

Sharpens every edge hard, so the wavy lines crackle with bright outlines and gritty colour inside them. Where edges are strongest, colour is replaced from a rainbow palette that follows a spiral centred on the frame, drifting outward over time. Edge sets the sharpening, Spiral the number of arms, Blend the mix with the source.

Using Neural Static

Where it works: Line art, logos and illustrated covers with strong outlines, where the oversharpening turns linework into fizzing texture. Soft footage gives it little edge to work with, so the result stays close to the source.
With the music: Only the spiral moves on its own, at the pace Speed sets. B8 (hats) on Edge makes the outlines crackle with the hats, and B5 (mids) on Blend lifts the whole effect with the melody.
Starting point: Edge at centre, Spiral at a quarter, Blend at three-quarters, on artwork with dark, clean outlines.

Controls

Edge: Laplacian edge boost into the neural field.
Spiral: Angular spiral modulation in the spectrum mix.
Blend: Final neural vs source mix depth.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Neural Static