Distort

Turbulent Swirl

Stir a shape through a noise field so the wobble curls rather than merely wanders, which is how marbled endpapers and smoke plumes behave.

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Parameters3 adjustable

On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel

Destructiveno, the original path is kept

LicenceFree for commercial use

The 3 controls

Nothing here is baked in. Every value stays live on the object for as long as the file exists, so you can come back and retune it, reorder it against other effects, or take it off and get your original path back exactly as you drew it.

Swirl-360 to 360, default 60
Scale10 to 200, default 60
Seed0 to 999, default 1

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