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Wire Helix

Wire Helix is a 3D wireframe visual in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Double helix strands winding past each other with rungs between.

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.

Try Wire Helix freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
Two double-helix wireframes with horizontal rungs, lavender on the left and cyan on the right, on black
Wire Helix, default settings

What Wire Helix does

Two upright double helices stand either side of centre, each a pair of counter-phase strands with seven rungs between them. The strands scroll through their phase so the twist runs down the column, and the rungs stretch and shrink as the strands cross. It's flat, with no 3D tumble, and taller than wide, the only Wire object with a vertical footprint.

Using Wire Helix

Where it works
Its tall shape makes a pair of columns that frame a title, logo or DJ name between them. The DNA read suits science-themed flyers and anything with a biological theme.
With the music
The strands turn on the clock and ignore the track. B1 (kick) on Size makes the columns thump outward on each kick, and a free-running LFO on Hue lets both strands drift through colour.
Starting point
Size three-quarters, Move a quarter, Hue lavender, Object placement on Left and right, with the logo centred between the strands.

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 Helix