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Tide Pool Diatoms

Five glassy radially-symmetric diatom frustules drift and slowly rotate in deep teal water; tessellated pores twinkle refractively with a lighter-mode glow.

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When to use it

Ambient scientific or nature-themed backgrounds, biology/ocean UIs, screensaver-style hero sections.

When not to

Contexts requiring legible text overlays — the additive lighter composite blends with anything placed on top. Light backgrounds need a full restyle.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change accent color from teal to amber by replacing ACC=[63,214,192] with ACC=[255,180,60], increase rotation speed by doubling each sp value in specs, and add a sixth diatom at x:0.5, y:0.8. 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

  • accent color (ACC array)
  • diatom positions and sizes (specs array)
  • rotation speeds (sp values)
  • ring count per diatom (rings property)
  • symmetry order per diatom (sym property)
  • twinkle speed multiplier (g*1.6)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard with static fallback frame
  • visibilitychange stop/start
  • globalCompositeOperation lighter reset to source-over
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Light re-theme via the [data-theme=light] token block; catalog bg/accent describe the dark default
  • Pore count grows quadratically with ring count — large sym+rings combos can slow frame rate
  • Pointer only boosts rotation speed; no per-diatom hit detection or interaction

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