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Radioactive Rose

Radioactive Rose is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Orchid magenta against toxic green and a lemon shoulder.

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 plum lines over acid lime and hot pink swirls — Radioactive Rose, default settings

What Radioactive Rose does

Shadows go orchid, mids rose-magenta, and anything with a strong green channel flips to toxic lime, with a pale lemon shoulder on the very top. Because Toxic keys off green rather than brightness, foliage and green light glow acid while reds stay pink, and skin lands partly in the lime. Lemon only lightens the top third of the tones.

Using Radioactive Rose

Where it works: Acid-house flyers, psytrance drops and horror-tinged covers where a sickly clash works. Compared with Berry Nocturne it trades violet for lime, so the frame fights itself, magenta against green.
With the music: The grade itself ignores audio. Send B7 snare to Toxic so each snare floods more of the frame lime, and a beat-triggered Envelope on Orchid pushes rose down into the shadows on every hit.
Starting point: Orchid at centre, Toxic three-quarters, Lemon hard left, then back Toxic off until faces keep some pink.

Controls

Orchid: Orchid shadow into rose.
Toxic: Toxic green highlight pressure.
Lemon: Lemon shoulder on the top end.

Pairs well with Radioactive Rose