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Gold-Leaf Ornamental Studies

The Golden Tree

Recursive gold fractal tree grows and breathes via a pulsing sine wave, with spiral coil tips and drifting gold flecks against a near-black background.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motion

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When to use it

Luxury or art-themed hero backgrounds, gallery/museum digital installations, ambient dark-mode displays.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded dark canvas fill). Contexts where constant tree-growth motion competes with foreground content.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change the branch color from gold (#c8a951) to copper (#b87333), slow the breathing cycle by setting the sin multiplier from 0.45 to 0.2, and increase fleck count from 7 to 14. 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

  • branch color (GOLD='#c8a951')
  • highlight color (GOLD_HI='#e6cf86')
  • growth breath speed (t*0.45)
  • max tree depth (depth=6)
  • fleck particle count (i<7)
  • trunk length scale (0.46)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (REDUCED)
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware fitCanvas()
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and canvas fill — must change in two places
  • Recursive branch() has no explicit depth guard beyond the depth<=0 check; very large canvases may increase call depth slightly

treegenerativegoldfractalcanvasambient

More Gold-Leaf Ornamental Studies components

  • Mosaic ShimmerA 14x10 grid of gold tesserae pulses in diagonal sine-wave shimmer; sparse jewel-toned accents pop against the gold, evoking Byzantine mosaic.
  • Spiral Ornament EngineGold spirals, all-seeing eyes, and gilded triangles fade in and out against a near-black background, slowly rotating as they drift through their lifespan.
  • Gilded HaloConcentric gold rings bloom and fade from click/pointer points while gold-leaf flecks scatter with gravity; auto-strikes keep it alive passively.
  • The Pattern LoomThree gold friezes of gold-leaf symbols (circles, spirals, triangles, eyes) scroll in alternating directions at staggered speeds, endlessly re-weaving.
  • Falling GoldDiamond-shaped gold flakes drift and sway downward against a near-black background, each shimmering in opacity as they tumble and rotate.
  • Byzantine CounterpointTwo SVG columns of spirals, eyes, and triangles in gold and malachite cycle motifs and counter-rotate every 900ms in phase-shifted counterpoint.