Flow Lines

Flow Lines draws every picture as fine lines flowing through it like water around stones. The lines bend around the picture's forms and drift in a slow meander, and soft dashes run along them with the flow, faster where the picture is bright.

How it works

A waiting picture is thin grey dashed lines drifting. When it becomes the active one, a soft wave crosses it: behind the wave the dashes close into solid lines, the lines thicken and take the picture's colour, until they meet and the picture is whole. The flow keeps moving in its fine grain, so the active picture never goes fully still. In Part mode the cursor parts the lines around it, like a finger drawn through water.

Settings

• Lines: how many lines run across the picture.
• Bend: how much the picture's forms bend the lines.
• Meander: the slow wandering of the lines.
• Flow: the speed of the flow along the lines.
• Dashes: how many dashes break a waiting picture's lines; 0 makes them solid.
• Hairline: how thin a waiting picture's lines are.
• Part: how strongly the cursor parts the lines.
• Change time, Wave and Slant: the speed, softness and angle of the change wave.

Use it for

Wellness and spa brands, nature and water themes, music, calm portfolio pages. For straight engraved lines instead, see Engraving; for a whole scene with water, see the ocean.