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Effects lab

Every effect, running live.

A gallery of txtfx effects rendered in real time over the same sample scene. The ones marked in editor are in the effect selector right now — the rest are experiments still on the workbench. Every one is seeded and deterministic, so what you see here is exactly what exports.

gray = base / image layermint = effect glyph layer

Transforms9

Bend, break, and rebuild the converted image itself.

Rippleripple

Concentric waves radiate from the center and bend the image.

Vortexvortex

The image swirls around its center, then unwinds.

Wavewave

Rows shear side to side — the image ripples like a flag.

Pulsepulse

A ring of light beats outward from the center on a heartbeat.

Dissolvedissolve

Cells drop out in noise order and reassemble.

Collapsecollapse

Columns crumble downward, then the image rebuilds.

Pixelatepixelate

Resolution collapses into blocks and recovers on a cycle.

Boilboil

Every cell drifts through the ramp at its own pace — film grain for ASCII.

Wipewipe

A diagonal edge sweeps across and re-reveals the image.

Generative fields9

Self-contained pattern generators that can run under or over a scene.

Staticstatic

Broadcast noise washes over the image in bursts.

Plasmain editor

The classic demoscene interference field, in ramp characters.

Interferenceinterference

Two moving wave sources cross into a shifting moiré.

Tunneltunnel

Rings rush toward the viewer from a vanishing point.

Metaballsmetaballs

Three blobs merge and split as they drift.

Lifein editor

Conway's Game of Life runs in the grid, reseeding when it settles.

Ringsrings

Concentric shock rings pulse outward from the center and fade.

Kaleidoscopekaleido

A plasma field folded into mirrored wedges.

Voronoivoronoi

Cells claim territory around drifting sites; the borders glow.

Overlays6

Glyph layers that decorate the image without touching it.

Aurorain editor

Curtains of light drift and fold across the top of the frame.

Spiralin editor

Twin arms rotate around the image like slow radar.

Orbitin editor

Satellites circle the subject leaving short trails.

Lightningin editor

A bolt forks down the frame every few seconds, then afterglows.

Starfieldstarfield

Warp-speed stars streak outward from a vanishing point.

Wormsworms

Glyph trails wander the frame on lazy sine paths.

Objects1

Rendered shapes with their own geometry.

Donutdonut

The canonical spinning torus, z-buffered in 38 columns.

The in-editor effects are ready to use now — open one over your own image, tune it, and export. The experiments are next in line.

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