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Light & lasers effect

Solar Flare

Solar Flare is a neon and laser effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Solarized highlights with animated lens flare streaks.

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 art solarized into lilac and blue, with an orange flare glowing in the top-left corner — Solar Flare, default settings

What Solar Flare does

Solarizes the image so highlights fold back toward dark, casts it lilac and magenta, then lays a hot flare over the top-left corner plus a thin streak that slides back and forth across the frame. Shape runs the streak corner to corner, straight across the middle, or as an X. Solarize sets how much of the fold shows, Streak brightens the line, and Bloom tightens and heats the corner glow.

Using Solar Flare

Where it works: Album art that wants a sun-bleached, over-exposed film look, and summer or sunrise sets where the corner flare suggests low sun. The Wide streak nods to anamorphic lens flares in a Reel.
With the music: The flare and streak drift on the clock without reacting to audio. B1 kick on Bloom flashes the corner glow with each kick, and B9 air on Streak lets the line catch cymbals and risers.
Starting point: Solarize at a quarter, Streak at centre, Bloom at three-quarters, Shape on Wide, for a warm anamorphic streak that leaves most of the colour intact.

Controls

Solarize: Highlight solarization curve strength.
Streak: Diagonal flare streak emphasis.
Bloom: Hot lens bloom and ray intensity.
Tint: Colour of the flare and its rays.
Shape: Shape the flare streak takes across the frame.
Speed: Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Solar Flare