Symbolic Pastel Abstraction
The Series
Five SVG diagrams — spiral, nested ovals, petals, vesica piscis, concentric circles — cross-fade on a 3.4s loop with dot indicators, in pastel symbolic-abstract palette.
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When to use it
Art-inspired ambient displays, gallery intros, spiritual/geometric theme backgrounds, or wherever a slow meditative loop fits.
When not to
Contexts requiring immediate user interaction; viewers sensitive to slow cross-fades on reduced-motion setups (loop halts entirely).
Working with an AI agent
Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:
Change the auto-advance interval from 3.4 to 5 seconds by editing the `autoT>3.4` threshold in the tick function, and swap the first palette color C[0] from '#a9c8e0' to '#b0d4c8'. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.
Safe to edit
- color palette (C array, 5 hex values)
- slide interval (autoT > 3.4)
- cross-fade duration (transition: opacity 1.1s)
- SVG shape parameters (spiral turns, oval counts, petal count N=8)
- dot indicator active color (#e3a9bd)
- series cadence (next figure every 2.2 s; the spiral is traced progressively)
- theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)
Keep intact
- visibilitychange pause/resume guard
- IIFE wrapper
- prefers-reduced-motion check (stops auto-loop)
- aria-label on stage for screen readers
- idle series advance (progressive trace + pager dot)
- theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
Known limitations
- Auto-loop stops entirely under prefers-reduced-motion — no manual navigation fallback for those users
- No touch/swipe or keyboard navigation between slides
More Symbolic Pastel Abstraction components
- The DualityTwo concentric ring systems — rose and blue — slowly breathe apart and together; a golden vesica glows where they overlap, with a center dot marking the axis.
- Spiral of BecomingLogarithmic spiral slowly rotates and breathes while pastel nodes pulse with radial glows along its arm — generative geometry in symbolic-abstract's…
- Swan DualityTwo organic forms — cream and ink — orbit a shared center with wobbling silhouettes and a rose radial glow, evoking symbolic-abstract's Swan duality…
- Pendulum DiagramA harmonograph rosette draws itself stroke by stroke in pastel hues, fades, then reseeds with new frequencies — evoking symbolic-abstract automatic diagrams.
- Atom SeriesThree pastel atom diagrams — concentric rings, orbiting dots, center glyphs — connected by a faint triangle. After symbolic-abstract's atom studies.
- Tree of KnowledgeSymmetric binary tree of pastel circles and inked branches grows upward via stroke-draw and pop-in animations, then redraws on a 9-second loop.