Constructivist
Floating Forms
Suprematist field: tilted black square anchors red and off-white bars, squares, and a dot drifting in slow staggered CSS cycles on near-black.
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When to use it
Art/design portfolio heroes, dark-mode ambient backgrounds, editorial splash screens with a modernist or Bauhaus aesthetic.
When not to
Light-background layouts (background hardcoded near-black). Contexts requiring full motion stop — reduced-motion collapses animations but shapes stay tilted.
Working with an AI agent
Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:
Change the accent color from red (#d11f1f) to cobalt blue (#1a4fd1) on all .cv04-red and #cv04-glow elements, and slow the anchor drift to --dur:18s. 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
- red accent color (#d11f1f on .cv04-red and #cv04-glow)
- anchor drift speed and travel (--dur:13s, --dx:14px, --dy:-18px)
- background color (#0c0c0d)
- individual shape sizes and positions (left/top/width per ID)
- breathe opacity floor (0.62 in cv04-breathe keyframe)
- theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)
Keep intact
- IIFE wrapper with visibilitychange pause
- prefers-reduced-motion guard (CSS + JS setState paused)
- CSS custom properties driving per-shape drift (--r, --dx, --dy, --dr, --dur, --del)
- role=img + aria-label on stage
- theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)
Known limitations
- Background color is hardcoded in both html/body and #cv04-stage — must edit two places to change it
- Static red glow is percentage-positioned and may drift visually off-center on extreme aspect ratios
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