cf_spectralize
Updated: Aug 10, 2020

cf_spectralize is probably the most visually dynamic tool I've made. Its brief was fairly basic: "Chris, do you think you could come up with a decent way of doing chromatic aberration for my lookDev turnarounds?"
It quickly grew from there.
The premise of the set up is pretty simple: Plug in 2 STMaps and an image, then cf_spectralize will iterate between the two transformations with a suitable rainbow inbetween.
It's how you manipulate the inputs that gives such dynamic results.
This quick demo shows what happens when you plug in a normal STMap to one input and a scale up version into the other.
After playing around a little bit with spherical transforms and other operations, the results rapidly became more and more psychadelic:

For it's actual purpose (chromatic aberration) the set up works fantastically.


To actually control the tool, simply set the step count and go!

If anyone wants to have a play around with the tool or has any questions, please do reach out to me.
You can download the demo script here: https://www.chrisfryer.co.uk/post/cf_tools-demo-nuke-script