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Paisley Drift

30 psychedelic paisley teardrops drift and morph across a near-black field in green, sage, and gold using additive blending and a trail-wash smear effect.

canvasmedium complexitymoderate motion

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When to use it

Ambient psychedelic backgrounds, music/festival branding, hero sections needing organic, hypnotic motion without user interaction.

When not to

Contexts needing legible text overlays — the bright additive blending competes strongly. Low-end devices running many simultaneous canvas tiles.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change N to 20, replace PAL with warm-only colors ['#ff6600','#ffaa00','#ff3300','#ffcc00'], and slow drift by changing time*0.06 to time*0.03 in drawAgent. 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

  • agent count (N=30)
  • color palette (PAL array)
  • drift speed multipliers (time*0.06 / time*0.05)
  • paisley scale (MIN*0.085*scl)
  • trail wash opacity (rgba(10,6,18,0.16))
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • reduced-motion static fallback (drawOneFrame)
  • globalCompositeOperation 'lighter' additive blend
  • IIFE wrapper
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and canvas fill — must change in two places
  • No pointer interactivity — purely passive
  • Additive blending can wash to white if N is increased significantly

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