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Wire Torus

Wire Torus is a 3D wireframe visual in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Tumbling wireframe donuts with meridian and rim rings.

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 Torus freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
Four magenta and violet wireframe donuts in the corners of a black frame, some flat, some edge-on
Wire Torus, default settings

What Wire Torus does

Four wire donuts fill the corners, each built from eight rings around the tube plus an inner and outer rim. They tumble end over end, cycling from a flat ring of loops to a tangled edge-on knot. It's the densest Wire object, with the most overlapping line. Size sets scale, Move the tumble speed, and the default hue sits in magenta.

Using Wire Torus

Where it works
Busy enough to carry a corner by itself, which suits hypnotic psy and trance sections or a looping visual for a pack. At the edge-on moments it knots up, adding texture without another effect.
With the music
The tumble keeps its own time. B5 (mids) on Size swells the donuts with the melody, and Random on Hue picks a new colour each time it fires.
Starting point
Size a quarter, Move centre, Hue magenta, Object placement on Corners, keeping the donuts clear of the art's focal point.

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 Torus