Ukiyo-e Wave & Mountain
Seigaiha — Blue Sea Waves
Navy-to-sky arcs tile the canvas in the seigaiha pattern; nested rings breathe with a slow staggered rise like a tide held in cloth.
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When to use it
Japanese/ukiyo-e themed backgrounds, decorative hero sections, ambient looping tile patterns.
When not to
Light or warm UIs where blue-navy arcs clash. Avoid where text overlays compete with the dense pattern.
Working with an AI agent
Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:
Change the palette to warm gold by replacing cols with ["#5c2e00","#9c5a00","#d4860a","#f5c842"] and increase arc radius R from 34 to 44. 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
- arc color palette (cols array)
- arc radius (R=34)
- ring count (rings=4)
- breathe animation duration (3.2s)
- grid spacing (stepX, stepY)
- theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)
Keep intact
- IIFE wrapper
- prefers-reduced-motion guard
- aria-label on stage div
- SVG viewBox + preserveAspectRatio
- theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
Known limitations
- SVG arcs appended as raw DOM nodes with no resize cleanup
- Background color hardcoded in CSS body rule (#f3ead6)
More Ukiyo-e Wave & Mountain components
- The Great Wave off KanagawaProcedural Great Wave: layered Prussian-blue swells crest and sway with recursive white foam fingers; a snow-capped Fuji silhouette sits in the background.
- Fuji at DawnFlat woodblock-style Red Fuji scene: indigo cone with snow cap, sky cycling from night to beni-pink dawn, a sun rising, and three cloud bands drifting across.
- Sudden Shower on the Great BridgeDiagonal sumi-ink rain streaks fall over a flat arched bridge silhouette; wind angle shifts slowly via sine wave, evoking ukiyo-e's woodblock print.
- Cranes Crossing the MoonThree brush-contour cranes beat their wings along an S-curve past a pale moon on parchment. Staggered formation, wings driven by sine wave.
- The One Living LineSumi brush traces a Lissajous path on washi canvas; stroke swells when slow and thins at speed, with ink fade and dry-brush scatter.
- Wind among the LeavesOchre leaves and pale paper scraps drift across a sky-to-washi gradient, steered by a sine-based wind field with gentle undulating stream lines.