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Orphist Colour Discs

Colour Wheel Pulse

36-segment spectral disc spins while an energy crest sweeps its segments, causing slices to pulse outward and flare bright as the wave passes.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motionmobile-ready

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When to use it

Dark hero backgrounds, loading screens, or art installations inspired by Orphist simultaneous-contrast colour theory.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded dark canvas). Contexts needing legible text overlay — constant radial motion competes with reading.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change SPECTRUM to warm sunset tones (['#ff6b35','#f7c59f','#efefd0','#e63946','#457b9d','#1d3557']), slow the spin by setting vel=0.08, and increase SEG to 48 for finer segments. 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

  • colour palette (SPECTRUM array)
  • segment count (SEG=36)
  • spin velocity (vel=0.25)
  • crest sweep speed (dt*7)
  • radial pulse depth (0.62+0.38 ratio)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • DPR-aware fitCanvas sizing
  • visibilitychange pause/start
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (single static frame)
  • IIFE wrapper
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • No user interactivity — purely autonomous; cannot be driven by pointer or click
  • Background colour hardcoded to #0c0d11 in both CSS and canvas fill

colour-wheelcanvasspectralloopambientgenerative

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  • Prismatic Window20 colored rectangular planes in a 5x4 grid breathe, skew, and pulse opacity in staggered sine waves over a dark background, evoking Orphist window planes.
  • Endless RhythmA horizontal band of split half-disc circles in spectral colors marches endlessly left in a seamless CSS loop, inspired by Orphist's rhythm motifs.
  • Contrast PairsThree split circles rotate complementary halves against each other — red/green, blue/orange, violet/yellow — enacting Orphist's simultaneous contrast law.
  • Sun & Moon DiscsTwo large radial-gradient discs — a warm sun and cool moon — orbit the canvas center in opposite phase, blending with 'lighter' compositing where they…