Cosmic Orb

An iridescent soap-bubble planet: a slowly spinning sphere of nebula bands, dust lanes and twinkling stars wrapped in a refracting glass limb with chromatic aberration at the edge.

Install

Terminal

npx hyperframes add cosmic-orb

That writes one file: compositions/cosmic-orb.html.

Add it to your video

It runs for 10 seconds at 1920×1080. Paste this into your composition:

index.html

<div
  data-composition-id="cosmic-orb"
  data-composition-src="compositions/cosmic-orb.html"
  data-start="0"
  data-duration="10"
  data-track-index="1"
  data-width="1920"
  data-height="1080"
></div>

Move it in time with data-start. Put it on a different timeline row with data-track-index. See data attributes for the rest.

Change how it looks

Set these CSS variables on the block:

• --hue — Nebula hue. Defaults to 268.
• --accent — Accent hue. Defaults to 196.
• --spin — Spin rate (turns per second). Defaults to 0.035.
• --stars — Star density. Defaults to 1.
• --glow — Glow intensity. Defaults to 1.
• --size — Orb size (fraction of frame height). Defaults to 0.86.
• --pulse — Beat pulse (0-1, flat value when no envelope is set). Defaults to 0.
• --pulseenvelope — Beat pulse envelope: comma-separated 0-1 samples spread evenly across the clip. Defaults to “.
• --backdrop — Backdrop. Defaults to #04040a.

Tagged webgl shader background showcase 3d.

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