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CSS 3D & Perspective

Parallax Depth

A glowing sun with colored orbiting dots on layered CSS 3D planes that tilt and parallax toward the pointer; auto-orbits until interaction.

cssmedium complexitymoderate motionpointermobile-ready

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When to use it

Hero backgrounds, product showcases, or landing pages needing ambient 3D depth without canvas overhead.

When not to

Contexts requiring legible text overlays — tilt motion competes with reading. Avoid on pages where pointer events are consumed by other UI.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change the sun color to warm gold-white (#fff4d6 to #D8D097 gradient), increase dot count in the near layer from 6 to 10, and slow orbit speed by halving all `sp` values. 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

  • sun gradient colors (#ffe39a, #ff7a45)
  • dot color palette (colors array)
  • orbit dot counts (spawn calls: 8 mid, 6 near)
  • tilt intensity (tx*0.18 / ty*0.18 multipliers)
  • perspective depth (700px on #stage)
  • auto-orbit idle speed (auto+=0.02) Autonomous preview ends at first deliberate input and never resumes.
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • transform-style:preserve-3d on #card
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (reduce var)
  • layer depth cache outside rAF loop
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
  • demo-v1 preview lifecycle: initialize demoEnabled from window.__foreverPreview and stop attract work on the window forever:interactive event; retain manual feedback, settling, cleanup and explicit sessions

Known limitations

  • No reduced-motion static fallback — tile simply freezes on first frame rather than showing a non-animated state
  • Background color hardcoded to #1D1917 in CSS — must edit to change theme
  • Dot sizes in vmin may appear too small on very large screens
  • State remains local to each mounted instance; format/theme remount preserves takeover, not component values.

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