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Oil Slick applied to FRCTL's test image: Thin-film interference rainbows ripple over noisy thickness maps.

Liquid effect

Oil Slick

Thin-film interference rainbows ripple over noisy thickness maps.

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.

Controls

Thickness
Noise scale on the film thickness field.
Film
Iridescent spectrum saturation vs source.
Spread
How far the slick covers from the center.
Tint
Where the interference rainbow starts on the wheel.
Speed
Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.