Conduit

Category: Particles Tags: particle, gpu, compute, path, mapping, rainbow, glow, bounce

GPU particles course down a bounded channel you draw with up to 32 corner points — flowing, colliding, and ricocheting off the channel walls in a frayed rainbow ribbon with volumetric god-rays. Trace the edges of a surface to use it as a poor-man’s projection map. Widen the channel, crank turbulence and bounce, and beat-animate per-segment trim. Fire a Pulse to surge the whole stream.

Parameters

Path

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Points	2 – 32	4
Closed Loop	0 – 1	1
Edit Points as Sliders	0 – 1	0
Shape Morph	0 – 5	0.4	s
Recall Slot	0 – 16	0

Path / Points

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
P1 X	0 – 100	25	%
P1 Y	0 – 100	25	%
P2 X	0 – 100	75	%
P2 Y	0 – 100	25	%
P3 X	0 – 100	75	%
P3 Y	0 – 100	75	%
P4 X	0 – 100	25	%
P4 Y	0 – 100	75	%
P5 X	0 – 100	50	%
P5 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P6 X	0 – 100	50	%
P6 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P7 X	0 – 100	50	%
P7 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P8 X	0 – 100	50	%
P8 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P9 X	0 – 100	50	%
P9 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P10 X	0 – 100	50	%
P10 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P11 X	0 – 100	50	%
P11 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P12 X	0 – 100	50	%
P12 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P13 X	0 – 100	50	%
P13 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P14 X	0 – 100	50	%
P14 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P15 X	0 – 100	50	%
P15 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P16 X	0 – 100	50	%
P16 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P17 X	0 – 100	50	%
P17 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P18 X	0 – 100	50	%
P18 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P19 X	0 – 100	50	%
P19 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P20 X	0 – 100	50	%
P20 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P21 X	0 – 100	50	%
P21 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P22 X	0 – 100	50	%
P22 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P23 X	0 – 100	50	%
P23 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P24 X	0 – 100	50	%
P24 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P25 X	0 – 100	50	%
P25 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P26 X	0 – 100	50	%
P26 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P27 X	0 – 100	50	%
P27 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P28 X	0 – 100	50	%
P28 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P29 X	0 – 100	50	%
P29 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P30 X	0 – 100	50	%
P30 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P31 X	0 – 100	50	%
P31 Y	0 – 100	50	%
P32 X	0 – 100	50	%
P32 Y	0 – 100	50	%

Particles

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Density	0 – 100	35	%
Particle Size	0 – 100	32
Glow	0 – 100	20
Glow Falloff	0.6 – 8	5
Streak	0 – 100	40	%

Channel

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Channel Width	0 – 100	18	%
Fill Shape	0 – 1	0
Flow Speed	-100 – 100	24
Turbulence	0 – 100	50	%
Bounce	0 – 100	70	%
Drag	0 – 100	50	%
Cling	-100 – 100	0
Implode	0 – 100	0	%

Variation

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Size Variance	0 – 100	0	%
Twinkle	0 – 100	0	%

Trim

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Segment 1	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 2	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 3	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 4	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 5	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 6	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 7	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 8	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 9	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 10	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 11	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 12	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 13	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 14	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 15	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 16	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 17	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 18	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 19	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 20	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 21	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 22	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 23	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 24	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 25	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 26	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 27	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 28	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 29	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 30	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 31	0 – 100	100	%
Segment 32	0 – 100	100	%

Wind

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Wind X	-100 – 100	0
Wind Y	-100 – 100	0

Color

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Hue	0 – 360	198	°
Saturation	0 – 100	85	%
Brightness	0 – 100	100	%
Hue Spread	0 – 360	252	°
Whiten	0 – 100	5	%
Exposure	0.5 – 3	1

Rays

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
God Rays	0 – 100	18	%
Ray Length	0 – 100	50	%

Border

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Edge Glow	0 – 100	45	%
Edge Width	0 – 100	30	%
Edge White	0 – 100	35	%
Edge Pulse	0 – 100	100	%
Edge Chase	0 – 100	55	%
Chase Speed	-100 – 100	40

Background

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Hue	0 – 360	216	°
Saturation	0 – 100	50	%
Brightness	0 – 100	0	%
Background Opacity	0 – 100	100	%

Transform (universal)

These parameters are available on all sources.

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Position X	-100 – 100	0
Position Y	-100 – 100	0
Rotation	-180 – 180	0	°
Scale	0 – 200	100	%
Zoom	0 – 200	100	%