What it does
Wraps the rectangular frame into a circle (or unwraps a circle into a strip). The basis for cylinder maps and ring distortions.
Plugin id: core.polar
Effects · Distort
Polar
Rect ↔ polar coordinate warp.
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.
moderotationmix
Runs everywhere effects run
Drop Polar 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 Distort effects
Liquid Warp
Domain-warp distortion.
Feedback
Recursive frame feedback loop.
Slit Scan
Time-displaced rolling scan.
Fractalize
Droste-style recursive frame-in-frame fractal.
Twist
Vortex around the center, falling off with radius.
Ripple
Concentric wave displacement from a center point.
Pinch / Bulge
Lens-style center distortion — fish-eye out or vortex in.
Wobble
Sine wave horizontal / vertical roll.
Noise Displace
Animated 2D noise warps the UVs.
Time Echo
Multiple offset copies for a trailing echo.
Ghost
Long-decay motion trails with a persistent history buffer.
Dream Warp
Hazy FBM domain-warp with soft glow and chroma drift.