What it does
Render the source as a regular dot grid where dot size tracks pixel brightness. Tunable spacing + smoothing.
Plugin id: core.dotMatrix
Effects · Stylize
Dot Matrix
LED display grid.
Parameters
The controls you'll see in the inspector. Like every effect parameter in Visualz, each one is audio-bindable — route a frequency band, beat onset, sweep, or MIDI CC at it and it moves with the show.
spacingdot sizesmoothing
Runs everywhere effects run
Drop Dot Matrix on any of the four buses — clip, layer, track, or set — with pre-or-post placement and a per-effect dry/wet mix. Stack it with the rest of the chain freely; the engine batches everything into a single per-frame draw graph, and a chain you like can be saved as an FX preset and re-applied with one click.
More Stylize effects
Pixelate
Block-down to chunky pixels.
Posterize
Reduce the color palette to N levels.
Threshold
Hard black-and-white cut.
ASCII
Render the frame as monospace characters.
Halftone
Newsprint dot-screen.
Dither
Ordered (Bayer) or error-diffusion dithering.
Decimate
Quantize the time axis — frame-skipping effect.
Watercolor
Multi-pass painterly stylization.
Crosshatch
Multi-direction hatching lines stylize the frame.
Oil Paint
Kuwahara-style painterly bucket sort.
Stipple
Random dot stippling, density driven by darkness.
Comic
Cel-shaded posterize + dark outline.
Crystallize
Voronoi-cell color averaging — stained-glass look.
Outline
Colored line wrapping bright shapes.
Gaussian Splat
Rebuild the frame as a field of soft, drifting Gaussian blobs.