StrataFlux Is Here

Well, the pixels have settled (mostly).

After a serious amount of wrangling with JavaScript and staring into the neon abyss, StrataFlux is finally out in the wild. It’s my take on a browser-based engine for conjuring wild, multi-layered abstract visuals. Forget installs; just open the file and let the color chaos commence.

Quick Hits – What’s Under the Hood:

• "New All" is Your Chaos Button: Instantly generates a full, multi-sub-layer "live" gradient. Your first stop for inspiration or happy accidents.
• Layering Madness: The "live" layer can hold up to 12 sub-layers. Tweak their types (Linear, Radial, Conic, even experimental Mesh), colors, and angles.
• Bake, Stack, Blend: Love what you see in the live layer? "Bake" it. This locks it in as a reorderable layer in your main stack. Each layer gets its own opacity and a huge list of blend modes (standards + custom weirdness).
• The Effect Engines – Where it Gets Wild:
  • Fractal Engine: Recursive, tiling color echoes.
  • Flow Warp: Liquid-like vector field distortion.
  • Displacement Engine: Texture-map driven pixel mayhem (upload your own maps!).
  • Symmetry & Recursive BG: Kaleidoscopes and layered background echoes.
• Export Ready: Snag full-res PNGs. Web devs can grab CSS for most live gradients.
• Browser-Based Freedom: Runs on desktop, pretty solid on mobile.

Why This Thing Exists:

I wanted a fast, fluid way to build complex abstract art directly in the browser. Something that could generate rich, unexpected starting points and then let me dive deep into tweaking and layering. And yeah, it’s also designed to churn out some seriously potent base imagery to throw into my other app, Bucket Bender. StrataFlux makes the wild paint; Bucket Bender can then sort and glitch it.

What’s Simmering for Later?

More blend modes are always a possibility. Maybe some new generative twists for the live layer. The core is there, but the forge never truly cools.

For now, though, jump in. Hit some buttons. See what kind of beautiful, unpredictable, neon-drenched visuals you can pull from the ether.

— Dawnia AKA Letsglitchit
Chief Abstract Architect / Neon Whisperer