Wire Tunnel

Fly through a photorealistic woven-metal tunnel — six finishes, cloth-like waveform ripples, beat shockwaves, and six camera views.

Default demo track · live audio-reactive settings

Wire Tunnel is a wireframe classic in the Wire category, rebuilt as a photorealistic woven-metal bore. The tunnel wall behaves like fabric: the live waveform wraps around each ring and echoes down the bore, the spectrum shapes the cross-section, and every beat fires a luminous shockwave ring that races into the depth, lighting the metal as it passes. Six physically based finishes — chrome, gold, copper, obsidian, prism, and neon — reflect the tunnel's own glow. Wire Tunnel requires WebGPU; see Browser Support for current platform details.

Open Wire Tunnel

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

A tunnel that behaves like cloth

The tunnel wall is a woven lattice that responds like fabric: ripples spread from wire to wire, around the rings and down the bore. The live waveform wraps around each cross-section and older waveforms echo deeper into the tunnel, so the music visibly travels away from you. On every beat a luminous ring races into the depth, lighting the metal as it passes.

Mouse-drag orbits the camera; a few seconds after you release, it drifts back to the selected view.

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.
On a control with Assign modulation, open the source picker, choose a signal, and watch the slider's live fill.
Use Reset to Defaults whenever you want to return to the original look.

Presets and styles

Chrome Bore · Golden Helix · Obsidian Hex · Mercury · Neon Circuit · Copper Worm · Prism Drift · Deep Pulse · Gossamer

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
Reflections	Material	Sets how strongly the metal reflects the tunnel's own light.
Glow	Material	Sets how brightly the shockwave and neon finish glow.
Wave Intensity	Waveform	Sets how far the live waveform ripples the tunnel wall.
FFT Shape	Waveform	Lets the spectrum shape the cross-section of the tunnel.
Shockwave	Pulse	Sets the strength of the beat shockwave ring.
Fly Speed	Animation	Sets how fast the tunnel streams past.
Spin	Animation	Rotates the whole tunnel around its axis.

Settings reference

Core

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Mode	PIPE, HEXAGON, DNA, WORMHOLE	Chooses the tunnel structure: a round pipe, a faceted hexagon, a double-helix DNA twist, or a bending wormhole.

Material

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Finish	CHROME, GOLD, COPPER, OBSIDIAN, PRISM, NEON	Chooses the physically based metal finish of the wires.
Neon Color	Color	Sets the glow color of the neon finish.
Wire Gauge	0.06–0.4	Sets the thickness of the wires.
Reflections	0–2	Sets how strongly the metal reflects the tunnel's own light. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Glow	0–2	Sets how brightly the shockwave and neon finish glow. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Bloom	0–1.5	Sets the glow halo around bright highlights.

Lattice

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Rings	24–72	Sets how many cross-section rings weave the tunnel.
Strands	8–32	Sets how many rail wires run the length of the bore.
Twist	0–2	Winds the rail wires around the bore.

Waveform

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Wave Intensity	0–1	Sets how far the live waveform ripples the tunnel wall. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Wave Travel	0.05–1	Sets how quickly a transient echoes down the bore.
FFT Shape	0–1	Lets the spectrum shape the cross-section of the tunnel. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Cloth Stiffness	0.05–1	Sets how tightly neighbouring wires pull on each other — higher spreads ripples like taut fabric.
Cloth Damping	0.7–0.99	Sets how quickly ripples settle; lower keeps the wall wobbling like liquid.

Pulse

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Shockwave	0–1.5	Sets the strength of the beat shockwave ring. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Shockwave Speed	0.2–3	Sets how fast the shockwave races down the bore.

Audio

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Master Gain	0x–3x	Sets how strongly the input signal affects master.
Bass Intensity	0–3	Sets the visible bass intensity.
Mid Intensity	0–3	Sets the visible mid intensity.
High Intensity	0–3	Sets the visible high intensity.
Smoothing	0–0.99	Balances immediate audio response against steadier motion.

Animation

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Fly Speed	0x–3x	Sets how fast the tunnel streams past. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Spin	0–2	Rotates the whole tunnel around its axis. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.

Camera

Setting	Available values	What it changes
View	INSIDE, CORE, WIDE, TOP, ISO, FLY-THROUGH	Frames the bore from a named angle; transitions ease between views.
Path	ORBIT, HELIX, DRIFT, SURGE	Chooses the slow travel path the camera follows around its view.
Path Speed	0.05–2	Sets how quickly the camera travels its path.
Transition	0.25s–4s	Sets how long a view change takes.

Stars

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Enable	On / Off	Turns enable on or off.
Count	300–3000	Sets how many visible elements are drawn.
Size	1–8	Sets the visible size.

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

INSIDE with a slow DRIFT path is the signature flight; switch to WIDE or ISO to see the whole bore flex like fabric.
Route the shockwave to Beat and raise Cloth Stiffness — each kick then fires a ring that visibly ripples the lattice as it passes.

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