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Solar Static

Solar Static is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Turquoise lows burning up through orange into gold.

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 deep teal linework over burnt orange and gold wavy bands — Solar Static, default settings

What Solar Static does

A straight teal-and-orange ramp pushed to the limit: shadows sit on turquoise, mids burn orange, highlights go gold and a cream flare caps the shoulder. Turn Cyan up and orange spreads down into the darks, while Ember drags gold lower into the mids. Flare only touches the top third of the tones.

Using Solar Static

Where it works: Festival sunset footage, desert shoots and cover art that wants blockbuster teal-orange turned up past taste. Against Digital Eden it throws away the source hue completely and lands hotter, with gold on top instead of chartreuse.
With the music: Nothing in the shader follows the music, so drive it. B1 kick on Ember floods the mids with gold on every kick, and a beat-triggered Envelope on Flare adds a short cream flash on the downbeat.
Starting point: Cyan at centre, Ember a quarter, Flare hard left, then bring Ember up until skin reads gold rather than orange.

Controls

Cyan: Turquoise shadow into orange.
Ember: Gold highlight heat.
Flare: Cream flare on the shoulder.

Pairs well with Solar Static