Collective #694
Inspirational Website of the Week: Pinch
A clean design with beautiful micro-animations and some lovely typography art.
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Vanta.js
A fantastic generator for creating 3D and WebGL background animations for your website.
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Animating with the Flip Plugin for GSAP
Ryan Mulligan shares some initial experimentation with the FLIP animation technique provided by the GreenSock Animation Platform for add-to-cart transitions.
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Biased by Design
A resource for cultivating awareness of when and how cognitive bias can be introduced into the design process. By Jon Yablonski.
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A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works
Chris Coyier shares an easy-to-use CSS container query polyfill that works.
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Announcing Parcel CSS
Read all about @parcel/css, a new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust.
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Rotating Shapes in Isometric Space
An incredibly interesting thread by Angus Doolan on his insight into the problem of rotating any pixelart shape in any direction in an isometric world.
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Color Modulation
Introduce a touch of beautiful, organic color variance to your generative compositions with just a few lines of code. By George Francis.
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Dithered Branches – How My Generative Art Works
Frank Force shares how his insight on how he did some experiments with dot matrix printers and glitchy floyd-steinberg dithering.
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Three ways to create 3D particle effects
Varun Vachhar shows different ways to create interesting 3D particle effects.
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Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance
Nolan Lawson writes about why you should, and why shouldn’t care about memory leaks.
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Three.js Experiment
A mind-blowing Three.js demo made by Domenico Bruzzese.
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How-to: Accessible heading structure
Rian Rietveld explains how to write well-structured headings for reader friendliness and better SEO.
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Infinite scrollable and draggable (WebGL) grid
A WebGL powered draggable grid made by Jesper Landberg.
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Make Beautiful Gradients in CSS
Josh W Comeau shows how to work around a RGB quirk that causes gradients to look washed out, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients instead.
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Image Gallery Template
An image gallery template made by Paul Henschel, perfect for exhibiting digital token art.
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Responsive Houdini 3D Carousel
Jhey Thomkins made this fantastic demo of a responsive 3D carousel using Houdini, 3D transforms, and custom properties.
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Window.js
Window.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming that comes with APIs familiar to web and desktop developers.
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How my website works
Brian Lovin gives some insight into how his website works, which is a borderline SaaS-ready web application including user account management, emails, comments, GraphQL, caching, end-to-end tests, and so much more.
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Minimator
A minimalist tablet-first graphical editor where all drawings are made of lines in a grid based canvas.
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Materialized
A project by Liviu Avasiloiei, where he challenges the way we interact with logos by taking them out of the branding context, transforming them into objects and placing them in unexpected environments.
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Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably)
Kilian Valkhof explains how the -webkit-text-size-adjust property can help control Mobile Safari’s font-size inflation.
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Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
Learn how to build a scrollable and draggable horizontal timeline using GSAP’s ScrollTrigger and Draggable plugins.
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Crafting Scroll Based Animations in Three.js
Learn how to create a scroll based animation in WebGL in this tutorial from Bruno Simon’s Three.js Journey course.
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Pixel Distortion Effect with Three.js
An interactive WebGL pixel distortion effect with lots of possibilities based on the effect seen on the website for “Infinite Bad Guy”.
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