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Art Deco

Ziggurat Rise

Three stepped gold ziggurat skyscrapers rise and settle with a damped bob against a radial sunburst on deep black — staggered entrance, then looping.

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When to use it

Dark art-deco hero backgrounds, luxury brand intros, architectural or city-themed ambient displays.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded dark bg). Contexts needing text overlays — towers occupy center of canvas.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change GOLD to '#c9a227', increase the center tower tier count by adding a tier [0.18, 0.7] at the top of its tiers array, and slow the rise cycle by changing the 0.4 speed multiplier to 0.25. 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

  • gold palette (GOLD, GOLD2, LINE constants)
  • tower tier dimensions (TOWERS array widths/heights)
  • rise speed multiplier (el*0.4)
  • stagger offsets (startMul array)
  • unit scale (Math.min(W,H)/22)
  • sunburst ray count (n=24)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • DPR-aware canvas sizing
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • prefers-reduced-motion static fallback
  • IIFE wrapper
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in CSS and JS — must change both BG constant and CSS to retheme
  • No interactivity — passive only
  • Towers always centered; layout not responsive to extreme aspect ratios

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