System: plexus

Structural

Parameter	Default	Range	What it does	Group
palette_steps	0	0 – 16	Quantizes the palette into this many flat bands; 0 leaves it continuous.	colour

Modal

Parameter	Default	Range	What it does	Group
link_distance	0.35	0.05 – 1	How close two points must be to be joined, in the layout’s own units; the cube is 2 across.	shape, main
link_alpha	0.7	0 – 1	How strongly a link at its closest is drawn; a link always fades to nothing at link_distance.	shape
line_width	1.5	0.5 – 8	Line width in pixels at the focal plane; nearer lines are wider and farther ones thinner.	shape, main
node_size	2.5	0 – 12	Radius of the dot at every point, in pixels at the focal plane; 0 draws no dots.	shape, main
node_glow	1	0 – 4	Brightness of the dots relative to the lines.	light
drift	0.15	0 – 1	How fast the points drift on their flow; 0 holds the network still.	motion, main
wave	0.15	sheet 0 – 0.6; inert on cloud	How far a sheet ripples above and below its plane, in the layout’s own units; 0 lies flat.	shape, main
wave_scale	1	sheet 0.3 – 3; inert on cloud	How broad a sheet’s ripples are; larger is a slower swell, smaller a fine chop.	shape
yaw	0	-3.1415927 – 3.1415927	Turns the camera around the network, in radians; bind it to a slow clock to orbit.	motion
pitch	0.25	-1.55 – 1.55	Raises the camera above the network, in radians; negative looks up from below.	motion
distance	3.5	1.5 – 8	How far the camera sits from the network’s centre; nearer exaggerates the perspective.	motion
fov	0.8	0.2 – 2	The camera’s vertical field of view in radians; zoom divides it.	motion
focus	0.5	0 – 1	Where the focal plane sits in the network’s depth: 0 at its nearest point, 1 at its farthest.	light, main
aperture	0	0 – 24	The blur of the far background, in pixels; lines nearer than the focal plane blur more, up to the tier’s cap. 0 keeps every line sharp, and wider costs fill.	light, main
brightness	1	0 – 2	The scene’s overall light level, multiplying what it draws before the composite.	light, main
hue_center	0.5	0 – 1	Where along the palette the middle of the volume’s depth is coloured.	colour
hue_spread	0.5	0 – 1	How far along the palette the colour travels from the nearest part of the volume to the farthest.	colour
saturation	1	0 – 1	Pulls the scene’s colour toward grey; 0 is fully desaturated, 1 is the palette’s own.	colour
palette_mix	0	0 – 1	Crossfades from the preset’s palette to its second one; 0 is the first, 1 the second.	colour
zoom	1	0.25 – 4	Scales the whole scene about its centre; above 1 fills more of the frame.	shape
pan_x	0		Slides the whole scene sideways, in the scene’s own units rather than pixels.	shape
pan_y	0		Slides the whole scene vertically, in the scene’s own units rather than pixels.	shape