Source node
Formula
A shader playground with more than two dozen ready-made looks baked in — plasma fields, Mandelbrot and Julia fractals, Truchet tiles, Voronoi cells, phyllotaxis spirals — each with four knobs you can wire up to anything else in the patch. For when you want something nobody else's patch has.
What it does
Formula is a source node: it makes a picture from nothing, so it sits at the start of a visual chain. It has no input and gives picture out, so it starts a chain.
Try it
Route your track's energy level into one of Formula's knobs so the pattern pulses with the mix.
Audio AnalyzeFormula (Param A)Bloom
Inputs and outputs
Inputs
- None. It starts a chain.
Outputs
- picture out
Controls
Every control with a range can be driven by a modulator, a note, an audio level or a sketch.
| Control | Range or options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| width | 16 to 4096 | 1024 |
| height | 16 to 4096 | 1024 |
| uA | 0 to 1 | 0.5 |
| uB | 0 to 1 | 0.5 |
| uC | 0 to 1 | 0.5 |
| uD | 0 to 1 | 0.5 |
| animate | on or off | on |
Example patch
This patch wires Formula to what it needs and shows the result. Download it, then use File, Open in Infinite, or read it here: it is plain text.
infinite-patch 1
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# Formula: a starting patch for the Formula node
node 1 Source Formula
id node
pos 520 300
end
node 2 Utility Output
id out
pos 1080 300
end
cable out 0 node