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WAVE EXPRESSION TOOLS

There are different typos of wave expressions that can be

useful every now and then during a career of a compositor.

Using these lines of expressions people with a task on their hands

of animating something can be more efficient and more accurate 

than using manually created animation.

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My go to place for such expressions is the invaluable 

collection by Cameron Carson that I very highly recommend - HERE.

This is a link I always add among the firsts to the bookmarks once in a new studio.

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He was also very thoughtful and put together an

ExpressionWaveGenerator gizmo too that you can 

download from Nukepedia.

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So, although using wave expressions is hardly a new

idea I wanted to share my take on utilizing their power.

I found that I often used certain types of these

expressions on certain nodes while not on gizmos.

So, after a while I started to add controllers to the nodes and later

some python buttons too to make it easier to access to different

types of wave expressions. 

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So here is a collection of them that you can easily download and apply!

The waves you can create with most of the nodes in

the package are the folllowing:

Random Wave

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Triangle Wave

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Sawtooth Wave

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Sine Wave

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Square Wave

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Bounce Wave

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Depending on your taste the following nodes can be 

downloaded & installed as a package or separately too.

( Instructions can be found in the README.txt in the zip or on GitHub )

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WAVE GRADE

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With this node you can add 6 different type of wave expressions to a selected knob's selected channels.

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WAVE MULTIPLY

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'value' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE SATURATION

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'saturation' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE HSVTOOL

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With this node you can animate a hue change by changing the values on a sawtooth wave expression.

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WAVE BLUR

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'size' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE DEFOCUS

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'defocus' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE ZDEFOCUS

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'size' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE GLOW

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'brightness' knob. When a certain expression is added

the button turns green.

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WAVE TRANSFORM

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'translate' & 'rotate' & 'scale' knobs. When a certain expression is added the button turns green.

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WAVE FRAMEHOLD

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's 'first_frame' knob. When a certain expression is added the button turns green.

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WAVE KEYER

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With this node you can add 6 different types of wave expressions to the node's knobs that controls the selected area and set their values separatealy and also to offset them. When a certain expression is added the button turns green.

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DIRNOISE​

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Other than the previous nodes this one doesn't use a wave expression but instead a great benefit of sin / cos algorithms that allows you in this node to adjust the direction and speed of the movement of the generated noise pattern.

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Hope you will find it useful! 

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