Color

Neon

A glowing tube along the contour, lit by the colour that lies under it.

Neon: a color effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Neon in the studio

Controls

threshold
How strong an edge has to be before a tube lights along it
softness
The band over which a tube comes up from nothing to full. At zero the line breaks up on gentle edges
purity
Drives the contour colour to the brightest version of the hue it already had. Pale paint is the same paint, watered down
hue shift
Turns the whole sign around the colour wheel. A red object at half a turn glows cyan
glow
Radius of the halo in output pixels. The tube itself is unaffected
intensity
Strength of the halo only. The core of the tube always burns at full, so dimming the glow never puts the sign out
keep
How much of the picture stays under the sign. At zero it is bare tubes on dark
paper
A colour, #06060a by default.

Starting points

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