Liquid effect

Ripple Tank

Floats the picture on real water. Detail and movement drop waves in, and they spread, interfere and come back off the edges.

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

Drive: How hard the picture disturbs the water. Detail makes standing chop, movement drops fresh rings in.
Tension: Wave speed. Low is thick and slow with long swells, high is fast and fine.
Ring: How long the tank keeps ringing after it is hit. High enough and reflections stack into a standing interference pattern.
Refract: How hard the surface bends the picture underneath it.
Sheen: Light catching the wave faces. This is what makes it read as a surface rather than a wobble.
Tint: Colour of that light.
Prism: Splits the channels across the bend, so steep faces fringe the way water does.
Key light: Which corner the light on the water comes from.

Ripple Tank

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