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Quantum Smear applied to FRCTL's test image: Random horizontal line displacement with panicked VHS saturation.

Glitch effect

Quantum Smear

Random horizontal line displacement with panicked VHS saturation.

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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Controls

Lines
Scan-line density for displacement bands.
Smear
Horizontal burst offset and chroma split.
Panic
Saturation crush toward VHS overload.
Direction
Which way the burst lines are cut, and which way they tear.
Speed
Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.