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Art Nouveau

Whiplash Line

Five Catmull-Rom S-curve ribbons in gold, sage, and rose breathe with sinusoidal wobble; five-petal rosette nodes pulse along the curves.

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When to use it

Art-nouveau or botanical hero backgrounds, luxury brand ambient displays, decorative section dividers needing organic motion.

When not to

Contexts requiring legible text overlays (curves dominate). Light backgrounds — dark ground is hardcoded in CSS.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change the palette to jewel tones by replacing COLS with ["#4a7fa5","#6dbfb8","#a56ea5","#c49a6c","#e8dfc8"] and increase breathing by setting each RIB amp to 0.08. 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

  • palette (COLS array)
  • ribbon width per entry (w field in RIB)
  • breathing amplitude (amp field)
  • animation speed (sp field)
  • node petal count (k<5 loop)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion drawStatic() guard
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware canvas sizing with ctx.setTransform
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in CSS (#0e1310) — must edit both CSS and JS to change
  • Reduced-motion renders a single static frame only
  • No pointer interactivity — purely passive

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