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|Kaleidoscopic Effects Animator

Friday, April 08, 2016,14:13:19

These actions will help you to easily create animated kaleidoscopic optical effects by overlaying two similar shapes and rotating one of them continuously against the other. This type of effect was widely used by light shows in the early 70’s, using adapted slide projectors using special kaleidoscope lenses, small clock motors and special effect cartridges with 2 transparent superimposed patterns, rotating one of the transparencies against the other. With these actions you can easily recr ... Read More

|Animated Moire Pattern Generator

Monday, March 21, 2016,12:56:32

Moire Pattern is the name given to the secondary pattern effect created when two identical (usually transparent) patterns on a flat or curved surface (such as closely spaced straight lines drawn radiating from a point or taking the form of a grid) are overlaid while displaced or rotated a small amount from one another. These effects were widely used by light shows in the early 70’s, using adapted slide projectors with small clock motors and special effect cartridges with 2 transparent sup ... Read More