- It doesn't hijack scrolling, it reacts to it, but scrolling down scrolls down, without pausing or going left and right or any kind of weirdness
- It is a large page, but not that large. In fact the two screenshots are the biggest thing on the page, the entire animation (more like a demo) on top is only 168 kB (+ the streaming music if you press play).
- If you don't care about all the fluff, you just have a blog post, you actually need to do something (scroll up) of you want to see it.
- The page is usable with and without an ad blocker. No annoyances like popups.
Also, after scrolling up, there is a 'settings' button (gear icon). Along with various options (including alternative shaders!), at the top there are 8 empty circles that are worth investigating...
I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so I'm obfuscating more specific hints:
# A good first step (very mild spoiler)
echo Q2hlY2sgdGhlIGNvbnNvbGUhCg== | base64 -d
# A direct hint about where to look
echo RmluZCB0aGUgaGlkZGVuIGFjaGlldmVtZW50cygpCg== | base64 -d
# A very spoilery JS statement that has side effects
echo YWNoaWV2ZW1lbnQoJ2NodHInKQo= | base64 -d
Very nice! Even the play button has a groovy effect if you hover over it!
I used to spend an inordinate amount of time watching the 3D Pipes screensaver, wishing there was a mode that would travel along the pipes after they are drawn. This is like that but mostly its own cool thing.
As well as screensavers, the visualizer in winamp was a great time sink for me with effects like [1] which bears a striking resemblance to the acko intro.
Not much surprise then that they were made by the same person [2]
- It looks awesome
- It doesn't hijack scrolling, it reacts to it, but scrolling down scrolls down, without pausing or going left and right or any kind of weirdness
- It is a large page, but not that large. In fact the two screenshots are the biggest thing on the page, the entire animation (more like a demo) on top is only 168 kB (+ the streaming music if you press play).
- If you don't care about all the fluff, you just have a blog post, you actually need to do something (scroll up) of you want to see it.
- The page is usable with and without an ad blocker. No annoyances like popups.