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Drifting Clouds

Puffy white clouds with radial-gradient puffs and soft blue undersides drift across a layered sky gradient; pointer nudges them forward.

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When to use it

Calm ambient backgrounds, weather apps, nature or travel themes, daytime sky hero sections.

When not to

Dark-mode UIs (sky gradient hardcoded light blue). Contexts requiring text legibility — clouds drift across foreground.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change cloud count to 10 by adjusting the divisor in Math.round(W/120), set base speed to 0.3 in mk(), and shift sky to a sunset palette by updating the three gradient color stops in frame(). 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

  • cloud count divisor (W/120)
  • cloud speed base (0.12 + z*0.25)
  • puff count per cloud (5 + random*3)
  • sky gradient color stops
  • pointer push strength (push+0.3)
  • cloud y-spread range (0.15..0.75)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • DPR-aware canvas sizing + setTransform
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (stops cloud movement)
  • cloud wrap-around respawn logic
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Sky and cloud colors hardcoded — dark-mode adaptation requires full palette swap
  • Reduced-motion stops movement but still runs rAF loop drawing static clouds
  • Pointer only accelerates clouds rightward — no directional influence

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