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Wire Globe

Wire Globe is a 3D wireframe visual in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Foreground wireframe globes with animated longitude and latitude lines.

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

Four cyan, teal and yellow wireframe globes with latitude and longitude lines in the corners of a black frame — Wire Globe, default settings

What Wire Globe does

Four wireframe spheres sit in the corners, each an outline ring, an equator, five flat latitude lines and four meridians. The outline and latitudes stay fixed while the meridian ellipses swing round, widening and narrowing, so the globe turns in place without its silhouette moving. Each copy runs on its own phase in a neighbouring hue. Size sets the radius, Move the swing and a gentle bob.

Using Wire Globe

Where it works: The calmest Wire object, since the outline never moves. Pick it for a slow intro or ambient opener, or a tour poster where the corners want framing and the centre must stay clear.
With the music: Wires don't hear the audio on their own. B2 (sub bass) on Size swells the globes with the low end, and a bar-synced LFO on Hue rotates their colour. Modulating Move jumps the rotation rather than speeding it smoothly.
Starting point: Size a quarter, Move a quarter, Hue cyan, Object placement on Corners, so four small globes turn slowly around the art.

Controls

Size: Object radius and foreground presence.
Move: Rotation, bob, and orbit motion speed.
Hue: Wireframe color family.
Object placement: Object placement pattern.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Wire Globe