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Wire Orbit

Wire Orbit is a 3D wireframe visual in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Atomic shells with electrons running their own precessing ellipses.

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 Orbit freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
Four yellow and teal atom wireframes with elliptical orbits and electron dots in the corners of a black frame
Wire Orbit, default settings

What Wire Orbit does

Four atom symbols fill the corners, each a small nucleus ring inside three elliptical shells set 60 degrees apart. The shells turn slowly as a set while a glowing electron races round each one, so fast and slow motion share the same object. It's the only Wire shape with solid dots. Size sets scale, and Move sets both speeds together.

Using Wire Orbit

Where it works
Reads as an atom at a glance, so it fits science or tech branding and techno flyers. The racing electrons give small bright points that catch the eye without covering much of the art.
With the music
Like every Wire object it has no audio response of its own. B8 (hats) on Size makes the atoms tick with the hi-hats, and a bar-synced LFO on Hue cycles their colour every bar.
Starting point
Size a quarter, Move centre, Hue yellow, Object placement on Corners, leaving the centre of the frame clear.

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 Orbit