Plasma

Generate saturated plasma bands with cycling colour fields for abstract energy, heat, and liquid backplates.

Written By Massimo Albanese

Last updated About 4 hours ago

Generate saturated plasma bands with cycling colour fields for abstract energy, heat, and liquid backplates.

Location

Texture & Pattern / Generative / Pattern Generator / Plasma

Select the layer to edit Plasma in the Effect Panel. Open Parameters below for individual controls.

Double-click a control label to reset it. Use its function button to add keyframes or a driver.

Control	What it does	Default	Range	Nudge	Animation
Color Phase	Offsets the FM palette or colour source through its cycle.	200	0 to 360	1	Continuous keyframes
Color Spread	Chooses the color spread used by this effect.	180	0 to 720	1	Continuous keyframes
Feature Size	Feature Size setting for this effect.	12	0.2 to 40	0.1	Continuous keyframes
Feature Size Unit	Chooses whether feature size is measured as a percentage or pixels.	%	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Lacunarity	Lacunarity setting for this effect.	2	1.1 to 4	0.05	Continuous keyframes
Lightness	Adjusts lightness in this effect's output.	0.55	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Mode	Operation mode for the selected effect family.	generative	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Octaves	Sets how many octaves are used; higher values add detail or quality.	3	1 to 8	1	Continuous keyframes
Pattern Type	Pattern Type setting for this effect.	plasma	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Persistence	Persistence setting for this effect.	0.5	0.05 to 0.95	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Saturation	Adjusts saturation in this effect's output.	0.85	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Seed	Deterministic random seed for generated structure.	0	0 to 99999	1	Discrete keyframes

madphase 1.4.0

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