Interactive Particles Slideshow

An interactive particles slideshow experiment built with HTML5 Canvas.

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This is an experimental interactive slideshow component with math shapes and texts using Canvas. The slideshow consists of pairs of shape and text, both made out of particles that the user can interact with and that transition into the next pair when navigating. With Canvas we can dynamically draw 2D stuff using JavaScript and this experiment shows some of the possibilities.

Please note: this only works as intended in browsers that support the respective CSS properties. Modern browsers only!

The particles for the shapes have a predefined set of colors that the particles will be painted with. The text will be built up of white particles:

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When navigating to the next (or previous) slide, the text and the shape will morph into the new one, creating an interesting effect:
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After the transformation, we can see the shape and the text of the next slide:
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The particles of the text and the shape are interactive in a way that we can push them around a bit:
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Hope you liked it, and that it gave you some inspiration!

Francesco Trillini

I'm a freelance developer. I love all things related to animations, motion, and interactive web stuff. I also love arts, physics, and cars. You can find my experiments at: http://codepen.io/Francext

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  1. Hi. Interesting one. But if i wanted to customize it on my own, make my own wordings, how do i make that?

  2. It’s quite interesting but you might check something because the animation disappears when you navigate through open tabs and never reappears (on Chrome Beta, at least). Keep up the good work 😉

  6. I see I can change the wording to whatever I want. How do I only get the word and take out the circle, ovals, ribbon etc. ?

  7. Amazing!
    Every time i need any CSS outstanding stuff, i simply open codrops bookmark 🙂
    Bravo

  8. function createParticles() { for(var quantity = 0, len = 200; quantity 0 || radius < 12 ? false : true; ...

    Last line in the code block should be always evaluating to false. Is that intended?

  16. WOUHAOU ! very nice work Francesco / How is it possible to create a link target on each words / animation ? Thanks you

  19. Hi, I like it and I want to change from circle to heart-shaped?? Thank you so much!

  21. Very nice man! How do you create new shape like “Square”, “Oval”, and So on.. I’d really like to be able to create shape like coputer monitor, car, and building…

    Thanks!

  23. Excellent stuff. We know how hard it is to create something like this and you give it away for free!

  24. hey this is really amazing bro 🙂 B-) awesome 🙂 good work 🙂 i was wondering if could change the shape according to my desire!!! is this possible? :-O

  28. This demo actually DOES work on IE9/IE10, please make sure you are accurately portraying the browser we all love to hate! Cool demo, btw!

    • Hey, there’s a “?” sign on IE and not cross. I think it implies it would work on some version and may not on others.

  29. Fantastic work. I thought you’d have used a library like paper.js or two.js
    Would love to know your opinion about them.

  30. Hi, that is looking good and i guess it was a alot of work. Thank u!

    but i noticed that my cpu usage went to 100% when i was browsing the demo page.
    Is it because of the old pc i have? or the bad graphic card?