Cursor Spotlight Mask
A pitch-dark page where a feathered radial spotlight follows the pointer with lag and uncovers a procedural star-chart composition beneath; clicking pulses the circle wider, and keyboard users get a static centred spotlight.
- Cursor
- gsap
- svg
- intermediate
- light perf
- mobile: full
- reduced-motion ✓
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light Spotlight Radial Reveal
A fixed near-black overlay with a radial mask hole is a torch beam: its position and radius are scrubbed along a keyframe path as the page scrolls, lighting each exhibit in turn; the cursor leans the beam on desktop and the hole opens fully at the end.
- gsap
- scrolltrigger
Featured medium Image Trail Following Cursor
Moving the pointer across a dark stage leaves a trail of grainy gradient tiles: every 40px of travel a new tile blooms under the cursor with a slight twist, hangs for 0.6s and dissolves, stacking above the last.
- gsap
- canvas2d
light Blend-Mode Cursor
A white disc in mix-blend-mode: difference trails the pointer with a 0.12 lerp, inverting headlines, a lime block and an image as it passes, swelling from 24px to 120px over links with a tiny label and pulsing a ring on click.
- gsap
Featured medium Zoom-through Hero
A pinned hero where the display word DEEPER is punched out of a page-coloured panel; scrolling scales the word 40× around the stem of one letter so the camera flies through it and the image panel behind is revealed.
- gsap
- scrolltrigger
- svg