Art Deco

Skyline Pulse

A symmetric stepped Art Deco skyline of 7 gold-corniced towers with window grids pulsing in a slow sine wave; sunburst halo crowns the central spire.

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When to use it

Dark-mode hero backgrounds, architectural or luxury brand contexts, ambient looping displays needing elegant geometric motion.

When not to

Light backgrounds (colors hardcoded for near-black). Contexts needing legible text overlay — window pulse competes for attention.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change the gold accent from #d4af37 to rose gold (#b76e79, update --ad10-gold), slow the pulse wave by changing 1.85 to 1.2 in the sine formula, and add a fourth outermost tower pair at cx:4/396.

Safe to edit

gold color (--ad10-gold, #d4af37)
pulse speed (t*1.85 in frame loop)
phase offsets array (phase=[0,1.4,1.4,2.6,2.6,3.6,3.6])
tower definitions (towers array — cx, w, steps, cols)
sunburst ray count (N=36)
background emerald gradient (--ad10-emerald)

Keep intact

IIFE wrapper
visibilitychange pause/resume guard
prefers-reduced-motion static fallback
symmetric phase pairing (symmetric towers share phase for visual coherence)

Known limitations

All colors hardcoded for dark background — light theme requires significant rework
Window opacity sine is clamped well below 3Hz but may still read as busy on very small tiles
SVG procedurally generated at runtime — no static fallback image for crawlers

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