Terrain Mesh

A curved spectrum landscape with coherent whole-sheet audio motion, additive height-limited ripples, sparse moving stars, smooth bouncing palette lights, eight performance presets, and stable framing.

Default demo track · live audio-reactive settings

Terrain Mesh is a horizon-filling audio landscape in the Wire category. Successive live-spectrum ripples alternate evenly across the left, center, and right of the grid as they travel from the distant curve toward the camera, shifting through saturated valley, crest, and peak colors that remain distinct as they climb. Light Ripple Crests can lift the brightest part of each ripple while preserving its palette color. Optional layered displacement visibly reshapes the entire terrain sheet from moment to moment with continuous flowing folds beneath the individual traveling ripples, while an adjustable height limit keeps their combined movement in frame and leaves the far edge readable. Sparse, crisp stars advance with the mids and twinkle subtly with high-frequency detail and occasional beat accents. Smooth palette-colored lights bounce from the displaced surface and cast moving pools of their own color across the terrain. Quiet and loud tracks stay within a comparable motion range. Plasma is the opening look, followed by seven presets that span contrasting terrain scales, displacement styles, and camera compositions; Mono retains its neutral palette with brighter terrain detail. Terrain Mesh requires WebGPU; see Browser Support for current platform details.

Open Terrain Mesh

Launch the visualizer with its matching left-nav entry selected.

Quick start

Start the demo track, choose a local audio file, or enable a live input.
Try a preset or style first, then open the section for the part of the image you want to change.
Choose a named preset, then use Layered Displacement and Height Limit in Core to balance the broad terrain movement against the traveling ripples. Use Smooth Preset Changes in Animation to blend into the next look. Reset Camera sits with the other Camera controls.
Use Reset to Defaults whenever you want to return to the original look.

Presets and styles

Plasma · Horizon · Synthwave · Ocean · Ember · Ice · Toxic · Mono

Audio modulation

On a control with Assign modulation, select the activity icon to open Modulate with. Choose a named source, or choose — None to leave the control unmodulated. After you assign one, its name appears below the slider; select that name to edit the route, or use Clear modulation to remove it. The slider track shows the live signal reaching the control.

Modulated control	Section	What the route changes
Displacement	Core	Controls how far the shape moves away from its base surface.
Bloom Strength	Atmosphere	Sets the visible bloom strength.
Travel Speed	Animation	Sets how quickly travel changes or moves.
Exploration Sway	Camera	Controls exploration sway; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.

Settings reference

Core

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Grid Density	24–192	Controls how concentrated the visible elements appear.
Width	60–220	Sets the visible width.
Depth	90–280	Sets the visible depth.
Displacement	2–32	Controls how far the shape moves away from its base surface. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Layered Displacement	On / Off	Makes the whole terrain sheet fold and undulate with the music beneath the individual ripples traveling from the horizon.
Height Limit	4–24	Caps the combined broad movement and individual ripples so the landscape remains in frame.
Raised Peaks	On / Off	Raises spectrum activity above the terrain when on; turn it off to carve the same activity into the surface.
Horizon Curve	0–0.6	Controls horizon curve; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.

Terrain Detail

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Idle Relief	0–6	Controls idle relief; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.
Noise Scale	0.2–2.5	Sets the size of the underlying landforms, from broad rolling terrain to tighter formations.
Noise Detail	1–4	Adds progressively finer layers to the underlying terrain.
Persistence	0.15–0.8	Sets how strongly the finer terrain layers remain visible.
Spectrum Spread	0.25–1.5	Controls how far elements separate from the center or from one another.

Material

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Finish	CHROME, GOLD, COPPER, OBSIDIAN, PRISM, NEON	Chooses a physical terrain finish: Chrome, Gold, Copper, Obsidian, Prism, or Neon.
Light Ripple Crests	On / Off	Brightens the top of each traveling ripple while retaining its current palette color.
Exposure	0.35–1	Sets the overall rendered brightness.

Atmosphere

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Fog Base	-20–10	Sets the world height below which the terrain fog becomes solid.
Fog Top	-5–32	Sets the world height where the terrain fog clears into drifting wisps.
Distance Haze	0–0.012	Sets how strongly distant terrain dissolves into the fog color.
Bloom Strength	0–0.8	Sets the visible bloom strength. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Bloom Radius	0–1	Sets the visible bloom radius.
Bloom Threshold	0.4–1	Sets the level that must be crossed before bloom appears.
Horizon Strength	0–0.35	Sets the brightness of the horizon glow.
Horizon Width	0.04–0.3	Sets how far the horizon glow spreads into the background.

Horizon Stars

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Show Stars	On / Off	Shows or hides the palette-colored depth field above the terrain horizon.
Star Count	0–64	Sets how many crisp background stars establish depth above the terrain.
Star Size	0.2–1.5	Sets the pixel size of the background stars.
Forward Drift	0–1.5	Sets how quickly the stars advance toward the camera; mids add extra forward motion, and stars re-enter only after passing beyond view.
Audio Twinkle	0–1	Sets how strongly high-frequency detail and sparse beat accents brighten the stars.

Colors

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Valley Color	Color	Sets the color of low valleys and quiet parts of the terrain.
Crest Color	Color	Sets the middle color reached as terrain ridges rise.
Peak Color	Color	Sets the color of the strongest terrain peaks.
Ridge Glow	Color	Sets the emissive color of traveling beat ridges.
Background	Color	Sets the background.
Horizon Glow	Color	Sets the color of the glow behind the terrain horizon.
Fog Color	Color	Sets the fog color.

Audio

Setting	Available values	What it changes
FFT Size	32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384	Sets how much frequency detail the terrain can read. Higher values separate nearby frequencies more finely.
Input Gain	0x–3x	Sets how strongly incoming audio drives the visual.
Bass Response	0–2	Controls bass response; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.
Mid Response	0–2	Controls mid response; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.
High Response	0–2	Controls high response; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it.
Attack	0.01s–0.12s	Sets how quickly the terrain rises toward a new peak.
Release	0.08s–0.8s	Sets how gradually the terrain settles after a peak.
Gain Memory	1s–12s	Sets how long the visual response remembers the track’s recent loudness before adapting to a quieter passage.
Noise Floor	0.02–0.2	Sets the minimum loudness reference so silence and low-level noise do not become full-scale motion.

Animation

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Smooth Preset Changes	On / Off	Blends terrain shape, color, atmosphere, material, and camera framing when you select another preset.
Transition Time	0.2s–4s	Sets how long a smooth preset transition takes.
Transition Easing	LINEAR, EASE IN/OUT, EASE OUT	Chooses the motion curve used by smooth preset transitions.
Travel Speed	0–1.5	Sets how quickly travel changes or moves. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Beat Shockwave	On / Off	Turns beat shockwave on or off.
Beat Ridge	0–1	Sets the height of beat-driven ridges that travel from the horizon toward the camera.
Ridge Emission	0–1	Sets the intensity of the bright core and bloom carried by each traveling beat ridge.

Bouncing Lights

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Show Lights	On / Off	Shows or hides the smooth palette-colored lights that rebound from the terrain.
Light Count	0–48	Sets how many bouncing lights travel across the terrain.
Light Size	0.18–1.4	Sets the visible size of each round light.
Audio Bounce	0–18	Sets how strongly active audio launches each light after it meets the displaced surface.
Terrain Light	0–2	Sets how strongly the moving lights color the surrounding terrain.

Camera

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Camera Mode	LOCKED HORIZON, SLOW SURVEY, AUDIO DRIFT	Chooses a centered terrain-filling Locked Horizon, a 2×-area Slow Survey that fills roughly 70% of the canvas at an angle, or a distinctly wider Audio Drift framing; each change eases smoothly into place.
Field of View	30°–90°	Widens or narrows the camera view.
Height	0–14	Moves the camera strictly up and down without changing Field of View, zoom, aim, or depth; zero remains safely above the displaced terrain.
Exploration Sway	0–3	Controls exploration sway; higher values increase the effect and lower values reduce it. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Survey Speed	0.02–0.5	Sets how quickly Slow Survey pans, aims, and dollies across the terrain.
Audio Lift	0–8	Sets how much bass can lift the otherwise stable horizon camera.
Look Ahead	0.15–0.5	Sets how far into the terrain the camera aims.
Reset Camera	Action	Returns the camera to the opening low-horizon position.

Performance

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Render Scale	0.5×, 0.75×, 1×	Balances drawing clarity and frame rate by limiting render resolution.

Some controls appear only after you enable a related mode or style. The settings panel always reflects the options available for the current selection.

Tips for a better audio visualization

Start with Horizon or Ocean, then balance Displacement, Fog Top, and Horizon Strength; the bounded camera keeps strong peaks in view.
Keep Layered Displacement on for broad terrain movement, then lower Height Limit if the individual ripples need more visual separation.
Raise Terrain Light when the bouncing lights should color more of the landscape, or raise Audio Bounce for stronger rebounds without changing the terrain displacement.
Use a larger FFT Size for detailed melodic material and a smaller one for broader, chunkier motion.

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