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Oxide Bloom

Oxide Bloom is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Copper metal blooming into verdigris and turquoise patina.

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

The eye-in-triangle illustration in olive-grey lines over turquoise verdigris with copper flecks — Oxide Bloom, default settings

What Oxide Bloom does

Copper shadows warm into bronze, but verdigris grows wherever green outweighs red, breaking up the ramp the way corrosion does, and turquoise blooms across the highlights. On the teal demo art patina covers almost everything, leaving copper flecks only in the peach areas, while a warm source stays mostly metal. Patina sets how far the green spreads.

Using Oxide Bloom

Where it works: Industrial visuals, weathered-metal logo reveals and cover art with an aged feel. It's the only Wild grade keyed on green over red, so its result depends more on the source's colours than on its lighting.
With the music: No audio or clock reaches the grade on its own. A slow free LFO on Patina lets corrosion creep in and recede, and B3 bass body on Turquoise blooms the highlights with the bassline.
Starting point: Copper three-quarters, Patina a quarter, Turquoise at centre, then raise Patina until green starts eating into the copper.

Controls

Copper: Copper base into the patina.
Patina: Verdigris spread, keyed off the green channel.
Turquoise: Turquoise bloom on the highlights.

Pairs well with Oxide Bloom