Polar Swirl

Draw angular polar bands that spiral around the centre for vortex masks and abstract motion fields.

Written By Massimo Albanese

Last updated About 3 hours ago

Draw angular polar bands that spiral around the centre for vortex masks and abstract motion fields.

Location

Texture & Pattern / Generative / Procedural / Polar Swirl

Select the layer to edit Polar Swirl 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
Amount	Strength of the sharpening pass.	1	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Expr A	Expr A setting for this effect.	1	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Expr B	Expr B setting for this effect.	mix(0.5, sin(atan2(y - 0.5, x - 0.5) * 6 + sqrt((x-0.5)^2 + (y-0.5)^2) * scale * 42 - phase * tau + 4.18879) * 0.5 + 0.5, amount)	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Expr G	Expr G setting for this effect.	mix(0.5, sin(atan2(y - 0.5, x - 0.5) * 6 + sqrt((x-0.5)^2 + (y-0.5)^2) * scale * 42 - phase * tau + 2.094395) * 0.5 + 0.5, amount)	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Expr R	Expr R setting for this effect.	mix(0.5, sin(atan2(y - 0.5, x - 0.5) * 6 + sqrt((x-0.5)^2 + (y-0.5)^2) * scale * 42 - phase * tau) * 0.5 + 0.5, amount)	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Mode	Operation mode for the selected effect family.	procedural	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Phase	Loopable animation phase for the carrier; animate 0 to 1 for a clean sweep.	0	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous, overflow allowed
Preset	Preset setting for this effect.	polarSwirl	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Procedural Color Mode	Chooses the procedural color mode used by this effect.	monochrome	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Scale	Sets the scale of the generated or processed detail.	1	0.1 to 4	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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