Cursor Position Creates Pattern in Material

Greetings folks!

I’m looking for a material that interactively create swirly/stoner/psychedelic visuals based on the cursor position. Any help on where I should start?

Thank you all!

Sounds to me like you want to look into render targets and draw mechanics.
Here’s some info that might put you on the right track:

Additionally I think that Niagara could be very helpful in this instance and is definitely worth looking into since you can spawn particles based off positions or textures etc, and then add a swirl pattern to it.

Niagara reference: Unreal Engine 4 Niagara Tutorial 13 Texture Sample - YouTube

Hope this helps.

On the UI?

Thank you for that, it will certainly help me in my quest!