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Wire Lissajous

Wire Lissajous is a 3D wireframe visual in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Harmonograph curves drifting through their own family of shapes.

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

Two magenta Lissajous figures drawn in straight segments, one a crossed bow, one a pretzel, on black — Wire Lissajous, default settings

What Wire Lissajous does

Two harmonograph figures sit left and right, each a 3:2 Lissajous curve traced in 22 straight segments, so it reads faceted rather than smooth. As the phase drifts the curve morphs through its family, from an open bow with crossed tails to a tight pretzel and back. It never rotates, it only reshapes. Size sets scale, Move the morph speed.

Using Wire Lissajous

Where it works: The most line-drawing-like object, closer to an oscilloscope than a solid. It suits minimal and electronic sets, a hi-hat line or a breakdown where the melody wanders, and sits well beside audio-scope effects.
With the music: No audio routing comes built in. B8 (hats) on Size makes the figures twitch with a hi-hat line, and a slow LFO on Hue drifts them away from the default magenta.
Starting point: Size three-quarters, Move a quarter, Hue magenta, Object placement on Left and right, so the figures reshape slowly beside the subject.

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 Lissajous