What is an atmosphere effect?

It composites drifting layers of soft haze over an image, varying density over time so the subject alternately recedes and returns as the air moves across it.

What is the difference between atmosphere and a haze filter?

A static haze is a uniform veil. Atmosphere moves, thinning and thickening, which is what makes it read as air rather than as a layer applied to the picture.

Why does this page show a loop?

Because the drift is the effect. Frozen, it is just a soft wash, and a soft wash is a different thing with a different name.

atmosphere effect

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01/ ORIGIN

who, when, what for

Air scatters light, and it also moves. Painters had the first half from Leonardo, who described how intervening air softens and shifts distant colour, but a painting cannot show the second half: that the haze is in motion, thinning and thickening, so distance is never constant. Only a moving image can. Cinematographers have used atmospheric smoke on set for a century precisely to make air visible.

02/ MOTION

why this one has to move

in motion

Haze drifts slowly across the frame in soft layers, thickening and thinning as it moves so the subject alternately recedes and returns

03/ SPEC

the real controls

This effect composites drifting layers of soft noise over the image, varying their density over time so the veil is never uniform. MODE selects between the three haze profiles, which is the coarsest choice and changes the character of the drift entirely. AMOUNT sets overall opacity, SPEED how fast the layers move, ANGLE the direction of travel from -45 to 45 degrees, and TINT shifts the haze colour. Because the drift is what distinguishes atmosphere from a flat veil, in kott this page shows a loop: a single frame of it is indistinguishable from a static soft wash, which is a different effect entirely.

MODERAIN / SNOW / FOG · default FOG

AMOUNT0 to 1 · default 0.7

SPEED0 to 3 · default 1

ANGLE-45 ° to 45 ° · default 12 °

TINT0 to 1 · default 0

it can move to the music

Every control of this effect can follow a track. Pick a signal in the studio’s audio panel (the beat, the downbeat, a build, the bass, or an EQ band you set yourself), point it at mode or any other control here, and set how far it moves. The sound comes from your microphone, a browser tab or a file you load, and it is analysed on your own machine.

how the audio routing works

04/ FAQ

questions people actually type

What is an atmosphere effect?: It composites drifting layers of soft haze over an image, varying density over time so the subject alternately recedes and returns as the air moves across it.
What is the difference between atmosphere and a haze filter?: A static haze is a uniform veil. Atmosphere moves, thinning and thickening, which is what makes it read as air rather than as a layer applied to the picture.
Why does this page show a loop?: Because the drift is the effect. Frozen, it is just a soft wash, and a soft wash is a different thing with a different name.

05/ OUT

open it, then browse

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