Skip to main content
Pattern

Pattern · screenshot coming soon

​
What this node does

Pattern synthesizes a COMFYTV_VIDEO from scratch (no input clip) — you choose a kind and a resolution/frame rate/duration, and it renders a procedural clip on ▶ Run. Each kind uses its own subset of the parameters below. Output is COMFYTV_VIDEO. To feed native ComfyUI nodes, insert a Bridge — see the bridge guide.

​
When to use it

  • Generate backgrounds, mattes, or transition fills (ramps, radial, noise, plasma).
  • Make broadcast test patterns — colorbars, colorwheel.
  • Drop in a countdown/count-up leader before a clip.
  • Produce a moving noise/turbulence source to drive other effects.

​
Parameters

​
kind

Which pattern to generate. Options: ramp, radial, rectangle, noise, perlin, turbulence, cellular, plasma, checkerboard, colorbars, colorwheel, count. Default ramp.

​
width / height / fps / duration

Output size (16–4096, default 1280 × 720), frame rate (1–120, default 24), and length in seconds (0.5–120.0 step 0.5, default 5.0).

​
color0 / color1

The two colors used by two-color patterns (ramp/radial/rectangle/checkerboard). Hex strings, defaults #000000 (color0) and #FFFFFF (color1).

​
p0_x / p0_y and p1_x / p1_y

Start and end points of the ramp gradient, normalized 0.0–1.0. Defaults place it as a left-to-right horizontal ramp (p0 = 0.0, 0.5, p1 = 1.0, 0.5). Move them to angle or reposition the gradient.

​
interp

Ramp gradient easing. Options: linear, smooth, ease_in, ease_out. Default linear.

​
softness

Edge softness for shape patterns (radial/rectangle), 0.0–1.0, default 0.0. Higher feathers the shape edge.

​
noise_scale / noise_octaves / noise_speed

Controls for the noise-family kinds (noise, perlin, turbulence, cellular, plasma). noise_scale feature size 4–512 (default 64), noise_octaves detail layers 1–8 (default 4), noise_speed animation rate 0.0–10.0 (default 1.0).

​
seed

Random seed for noise-family patterns, 0–99999, default 7.

​
box_size

Cell/box size in pixels for rectangle and checkerboard, 2–1024, default 64.

​
bar_intensity

Brightness of the colorbars pattern, 1.0–100.0 (step 1), default 75.0 (standard 75% bars).

​
wheel_gamma / wheel_rotate

For colorwheel: wheel_gamma 0.0–4.0 (default 0.45) shapes brightness falloff; wheel_rotate -180–180° (step 1, default 0) spins the hue wheel.

​
count_style / count_direction

For the count leader: count_style displays seconds or frames (default seconds); count_direction counts down or up (default down).

​
Outputs

​
Tips

  • Most parameters only apply to their pattern family — e.g. wheel_gamma/wheel_rotate do nothing outside colorwheel, box_size only affects rectangle/checkerboard.
  • Set a long duration and animate noise_speed to get a moving texture; static kinds (like colorbars) ignore time.
  • For a countdown leader, pick kind = count, count_direction = down, and set duration to the count length.
  • Ken Burns — animate a still image into video instead of generating a pattern.
  • Wave Warp / Feedback FX — feed a generated pattern into these for evolving visuals.