Orbiting Features

A glowing core with feature nodes orbiting around it — pause on hover, labels stay upright.

A radial, animated take on the feature section: a glowing central hub with six feature nodes spaced evenly on a dashed orbit, slowly rotating around it on connector spokes. A two-layer counter-rotation keeps each label perfectly upright while it travels, the whole ring pauses when you hover the scene, and individual nodes lift on hover. Positions are set with one CSS variable per node (the angle) so the ring stays even at any size. Pure CSS, light/dark switch, and it falls still under reduced-motion.

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Animshelf
MIT · v1.0

MOTION SPECIMEN LIBRARY · 131 SPECIMENS · MIT

Animations
you can take apart.

An open collection of animated effects in pure HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Canvas — text effects, canvas fields, motion — each a specimen you can open, slow down, and make your own.

131
Specimens
5
Techniques
0
Dependencies
MIT
License
SPEC · 001 / SOFT AURORA
CANVAS · 60 FPS · LIVE
REGISTRATION · 16:12
FRAME000000
T0.000s
EASE.22, .61, .36, 1
§ 02
NOW PLAYING

Four specimens, one per technique.

HTML · CSS · JS · CANVAS · WEBGL
§ 03
THE CATALOG

Seven shelves. One hundred and thirty-one specimens & counting.

UPDATED 06 · 2026
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FIELD GUIDE

How a specimen works.

FOUR STEPS

Every specimen is presented like lab equipment — framed, labelled, and ready to be taken apart.

STEP 01
Open the stage.
Each component sits inside a framed preview viewport with registration ticks, a live frame counter, and the easing curve plotted alongside it.
STAGE
STEP 02
Slow it down.
Step through frames, swap easing, toggle reduced motion. Read the animation the way you’d read a contact sheet.
SCRUB
STEP 03
Read the source.
Every specimen is one self-contained file — HTML markup, a CSS block, and vanilla JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no dependencies.
ONE FILE
STEP 04
Take it home.
Copy the file, drop it in your project, change the props. No CLI, no install, no lock-in. MIT licensed.
MIT