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Time Displacement

Displaces the layers below in TIME rather than space: a map — a linear or radial gradient, or the source's own brightness — sets, per pixel, how many frames back a rolling…

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What it does

Displaces the layers below in TIME rather than space: a map — a linear or radial gradient, or the source's own brightness — sets, per pixel, how many frames back a rolling history is sampled from. Moving content smears through time into ribbons and echoes (the classic time-slice look); brighter/further map values reach deeper into the past. Max Displacement sets the time depth, Angle steers the linear gradient, Invert flips it, Smooth interpolates between frames, and Resolution bounds the buffered history. Needs motion in the layers below to show — a still image reads straight through; the smear also builds up over the first second as history fills.

Why Vibe Designer

Everything in the browser

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Layer it up

Time Displacement is a deformation / glitch pass over your image — stack it with the rest for something nobody else has.

Animate & export

Seamless looping video (MP4/GIF) and high-res image export, straight from the canvas.

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