Effect Catalog

Generated from the running app by node tools/build-wiki-reference.mjs. Values are base defaults, before presets or audio modulation. Select values are zero-based indices in saved data; the UI shows labels. Ranges use the app’s stored units; controls marked as percentages may display a scaled value.

The app registers 104 effects across 15 categories. Every category page includes each effect’s description, parameter defaults/ranges, native palette choices, and available starter presets.

Category	Effects	Full controls
Demoscene	8	Reference
Fractals	38	Reference
Distortion	5	Reference
Math	13	Reference
Noise	4	Reference
Simulation	6	Reference
Color	1	Reference
Psychedelic	3	Reference
Geometry	3	Reference
Patterns	4	Reference
Retro	1	Reference
Cosmic	4	Reference
Nature	5	Reference
Endless Scenes	8	Reference
Shadertoy	1	Reference

All effects at a glance

Effect	Category	Description
Plasma	Demoscene	Classic lava lamp plasma with flowing, pulsing color blobs
Mandelbrot	Fractals	Infinite fractal zoom into the Mandelbrot set with smooth coloring
Julia Set	Fractals	Morphing Julia set fractals that smoothly transform between organic shapes
Tunnel	Demoscene	Classic demoscene tunnel - flying through an infinite psychedelic tube
Kaleidoscope	Distortion	Mirror-chamber kaleidoscope: wedge, three-mirror tube, square, hex, recursive and spiral folds over animated source patterns
Fire	Demoscene	Realistic procedural flames with customizable palette
Starfield	Demoscene	Flying through a 3D starfield at warp speed
Metaballs	Demoscene	Organic blobs that merge and split like living organisms
Rotozoom	Demoscene	Hypnotic rotating and zooming tiled pattern
Moire Patterns	Demoscene	Shimmering interference patterns from overlapping ring structures
Voronoi Cells	Math	Organic cell patterns like soap bubbles or stained glass
Feedback Loop	Distortion	Video feedback trails: sources stream through zoom, swirl, kaleido, ripple or tunnel transforms with independent flow speed
Flow Field	Noise	Noise-driven currents: turbulent colour, curl streamlines, marbled paper, topographic contours, aurora curtains and silk threads
Perlin Noise	Noise	Smooth organic evolving cloud and smoke patterns
Domain Warp	Noise	Nested noise creates alien landscapes and marbled paint effects
Reaction-Diffusion	Simulation	True Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion with stateful ping-pong chemical buffers
Swirl Vortex	Distortion	Hypnotic vortices: classic spiral, op-art rings, spiral galaxy, liquid whirlpool, twin vortex and black-hole lensing
Wave Distortion	Distortion	Rippling wave distortions creating liquid, flag-like motion
Lissajous	Math	Lissajous figures, damped harmonographs, rose curves, 3D Lissajous knots and the butterfly curve as glowing lines
Spirograph	Math	Hypotrochoids, epitrochoids, cycloid stars, Farris wheels and guilloche rosettes as glowing layered lines
Sine Interference	Math	Pulsating concentric rings and beating interference patterns
Polar Spiral	Math	Hypnotic spiraling tunnel patterns in polar coordinates
Color Cycling	Color	Classic color palette rotation - static patterns appear to flow and shimmer
Water Ripple	Demoscene	Expanding water ripples with refraction and caustic effects
Burning Ship	Fractals	The eerie Burning Ship fractal with flame-like tendrils
Newton Fractal	Fractals	Smooth interlocking basins from Newton's method applied to polynomials
Strange Attractors	Math	Lorenz, Rossler, Aizawa, Thomas, Halvorsen, Chen, Dadras, Sprott and Four-Wing attractors traced as glowing 3D ribbons
Game of Life	Simulation	True stateful Conway cellular automata with ping-pong buffer history
Droste Effect	Distortion	Recursive infinite zoom - an image contains itself at every scale
Fractal Brownian Motion	Noise	Multi-octave noise creating organic cloud and terrain textures
Multibrot	Fractals	Mandelbrot with variable power - morphs between alien symmetric forms
Mandelbrot Deep	Fractals	Ultra-detailed Mandelbrot with distance estimation, orbit coloring, and stripe patterns
Phoenix Fractal	Fractals	Uses previous iteration memory - creates bird-like and feathered structures
Nova Fractal	Fractals	Newton's method with relaxation - creates explosive stellar nova patterns
Orbit Trap	Fractals	Colors fractals by closest approach to geometric shapes - creates stunning detailed structures
Tricorn	Fractals	The Mandelbar fractal - uses complex conjugate creating 3-pointed crowns
Flame Variation Field	Fractals	Analytic field preview of classic flame variation functions; use Fractal Flame Lab for density-rendered IFS flames
Lyapunov Fractal	Fractals	Stability map of logistic sequences - creates wild organic boundaries between order and chaos
Sierpinski	Fractals	True barycentric Sierpinski gasket, carpet, hexaflake, pentaflake and Vicsek fractals with a seamless infinite zoom and depth-level colouring
Mandelbulb Slice	Fractals	2D cross-sections through the 3D Mandelbulb fractal - otherworldly alien forms
2D Formula Lab	Fractals	Broad animated escape-time, root-solver, transcendental, and fold formula lab
Analytic Field Lab	Fractals	Animated complex phase, domain-coloring, quasicrystal, nodal, vortex, and number-field lab
Procedural Field Lab	Fractals	Animated 2D procedural and form-constant fields with phyllotaxis, Voronoi, moire, phasor, tunnel, and weave modes
IFS / L-System Lab	Fractals	IFS, chaos-game and L-system fractals drawn as glowing lines with motion trails, over space, nebula or paper backgrounds
Fractal Flame Lab	Fractals	Stateless fractal-flame variation lab with swirl, spherical, Julia, PDJ, rings, popcorn, and mandala modes
Buddhabrot Lab	Fractals	Progressive worker-accumulated Buddhabrot, Anti-Buddhabrot, and Nebulabrot density renderer
Attractor Density Lab	Fractals	Progressive worker-accumulated strange attractor and chaotic-map density renderer
FLAM3 Density Lab	Fractals	Progressive worker-accumulated fractal flame density renderer
Mandelbulb Flight	Fractals	Raymarched 3D Mandelbulb with fold-dive camera motion and animated polar unfolding
Triplex Mutation Flight	Fractals	Raymarched Mandelbulb-family mutations with burning ship, tricorn, generalized bulb, beam, and spud folds
KIFS Fold Flight	Fractals	Raymarched kaleidoscopic IFS folds with Menger, tetra, octa, and lattice flight paths
DIFS Tunnel Flight	Fractals	Raymarched distance-IFS tunnel structures with Koch folds, Mandalay boxes, torus tubes, octa shells, and twisted kaleido columns
Mandelbox Flight	Fractals	Raymarched Mandelbox folds with box/sphere inversion flight paths and animated fold rotation
Folded Box Variants Flight	Fractals	Raymarched Mandelbox-family variants with Amazing Box, surf-like sheet folds, smooth folds, ABox modulation, and box-bulb hybrid motion
Quaternion Julia Flight	Fractals	Raymarched quaternion Julia set with morphing constants, slice motion, and close flight paths
Hypercomplex Slice Flight	Fractals	Raymarched higher-dimensional slice fractals with tetrabrot, tricomplex, octonion-style, and quaternion-bulb motion
Schottky Inversion Flight	Fractals	Raymarched Schottky sphere inversions with bubble caves, ring limits, and Apollonian-like shell motion
Apollonian Foam Flight	Fractals	Raymarched inversion-foam and pseudo-Kleinian fly-through structures with cell, chain, cathedral, and box-hybrid motion
Polyfold Flight	Fractals	Raymarched polyhedral KIFS folds with cathedral, tetrahedral, star, sponge, lattice, and hybrid flight paths
3D Fractal Flame Volume Flight	Fractals	Volumetric IFS/flame-inspired clouds with nonlinear 3D transforms, density tonemapping, and fly-through motion
Strange Attractor Flight	Fractals	Volumetric fly-throughs built from integrated Lorenz, Thomas, Aizawa, and Rossler phase-space trajectories
L-System Tube Flight	Fractals	Procedural turtle-branch tube fields inspired by 3D L-systems, with fly-through growth and branch sway animation
Glass Fractal DE Flight	Fractals	Distance-estimator scenes with glass, mirror, refraction, and a secondary reflection march
Kleinian Group	Fractals	Limit sets of Kleinian groups - intricate lacework of circles and gaskets
Liquid Light Show	Psychedelic	Overhead-projector oil and water light show: merging dye blobs, thin-film rainbow rims and projector bloom
Hyperbolic Tiling	Geometry	Escher-style {p,q} hyperbolic tilings in the Poincare disk or band model, drifting through the infinite plane
Truchet Tiles	Patterns	Endless Truchet paths: quarter arcs, diagonal maze, woven ribbons and flowing dashed rings with smooth tile flips
Quasicrystal	Patterns	Quasi-periodic wave interference with N-fold symmetry: smooth waves, interference stripes, polar rosettes and Penrose-like contours
Op Art	Patterns	Riley waves, Vasarely bulge, moire rings, zebra flow and kinetic squares in stark black and white or neon duotones
Synthwave Grid	Retro	Outrun horizon with a striped sun, mountains, stars and an endless neon grid
Glow Lab	Psychedelic	Neon light accumulated through tiny raymarch loops: vortex, cosmic surf, wormhole, lattice, plasma orb and accretion ring
Black Hole	Cosmic	Gravitationally lensed accretion disk, photon ring and bent starlight around a black hole
Rainy Window	Nature	Rain running down a window over blurred city lights; every drop refracts a sharp view
Aurora	Nature	Northern lights over a mirror lake with mountains, stars and reflections
Physarum	Simulation	Slime-mould simulation: hundreds of thousands of agents weave a living network of glowing veins
Cymatics	Math	Chladni plate patterns: sand gathers on the still lines of a vibrating plate, following the music
Nebula Flythrough	Cosmic	Fly through glowing volumetric gas clouds and dark dust lanes of a star nursery
Living Sun	Cosmic	A boiling star with granulation, sunspots, a streaky corona and looping prominences
Seascape	Nature	Rolling ocean at sunset with reflections, sun glitter and foam
4D Polytopes	Math	Tesseract, 24-cell, 600-cell and other four-dimensional solids rotating through 4D, drawn as neon edges
Phyllotaxis	Math	Golden-angle sunflower spirals that grow from the centre; tiny angle changes reshape every spiral
Fourier Epicycles	Math	Spinning circles from a Fourier transform draw hearts, stars, butterflies and more, in time with the music
Spiral Galaxy	Cosmic	A slowly turning spiral galaxy with dust lanes, star clusters and a glowing core
Underwater	Nature	Sun shafts, dancing caustics on the sand and drifting plankton under the sea
Liquid Chrome	Geometry	Mercury blobs melting into each other and mirroring a neon world
Gyroid Tunnels	Geometry	Flight through an iridescent gyroid lattice, an organic minimal surface
Soap Bubbles	Psychedelic	Iridescent soap bubbles with swirling thin-film colours and glassy reflections
Complex Domain Colouring	Math	Glowing phase portraits of complex functions, with drifting zeros and poles
Endless Terrain	Nature	Fly over endless eroded mountains, lakes and clouds with sun and aerial fog
Menger Citadel	Endless Scenes	An endless city of recursive Menger towers: fly along winding avenues between monumental porous spires
Recursive Cathedral	Endless Scenes	An unending procession of immense elliptical vaults, recursive pillars, illuminated ribs and a mirror-dark nave
Fractal Canyon	Endless Scenes	Follow an endless river between towering ridged fractal cliffs and natural mathematical arches, lit by an alien dawn
Infinite Lattice	Endless Scenes	Drift through colossal connected mathematical membranes: Schwarz P, diamond and Neovius nodal surfaces stretching in every direction
Crystal Geode	Endless Scenes	An endless winding cavern of luminous faceted crystals: quartz spires, amethyst clusters, monumental columns and prismatic needles
Golden-Hour Clouds	Endless Scenes	Continuous flight between immense volumetric cloud towers, over cloud oceans and through sunlit weather with silver linings
Planet Sunrise	Endless Scenes	A continuous low-orbit journey over curved planetary horizons, glowing atmosphere, cloud continents and enormous tilted rings
Robot Foundry	Endless Scenes	Fly through an endless industrial dance procession: six intact robot families, four factory worlds, and jointed choreography that follows the music.
Fluid Ink	Simulation	A real fluid simulation: swirling coloured ink poured and pushed around in water. Stir it with the mouse.
Lenia	Simulation	Continuous cellular automata: smooth, organic creatures that glide, pulse and divide
Curl-Noise Silk	Simulation	Hundreds of thousands of particles flowing through swirling curl noise, leaving silky long-exposure trails
Hopf Fibration	Math	Interlinked rings of light: the Hopf fibration of the 4D sphere, rotating and projected into space
Knots & Surfaces	Math	Neon knots (trefoil, figure-eight, torus and Lissajous knots) and wireframe Möbius strips, Klein bottles and tori
Islamic Star Patterns	Patterns	Breathing geometric star patterns built with Hankin’s method on square and hexagonal tilings
Shadertoy Lab	Shadertoy	Paste and run Shadertoy-style mainImage shaders.