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Organic & Nature

Phyllotaxis Sunflower

620 amber-gold seeds grow outward in a Fermat spiral via the golden angle; parastichy arms rotate continuously and speed up on pointer or click.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motionpointer

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When to use it

Nature/organic-themed hero backgrounds, generative art showcases, science or botany education contexts needing an ambient looping pattern.

When not to

Contexts requiring legible text overlays — the rotating seeds compete visually. Avoid on low-end devices if many other canvas tiles run simultaneously.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change seed count to 400 by setting N=400, shift palette to blue-violet (hue base 240, rim hue 200), slow rotation by reducing phase increment from 0.0016 to 0.0008. 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

  • seed count (N=620)
  • rotation speed (phase += 0.0016)
  • pointer boost strength (boost*0.01)
  • hue range (52 core to 28 rim)
  • seed size formula (sz calculation)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • DPR-aware canvas sizing with setTransform
  • IIFE wrapper
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • reduced-motion static fallback (draw(0))
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Boost decays on pointermove but never fully resets to zero — tiny residual drift remains
  • Background color hardcoded in CSS (#1a1206) — must edit both CSS and bgGrad stops to retheme
  • No click toggle state — click only momentarily boosts spin speed

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