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With 3D transforms, we can make simple elements more interesting by setting them into three dimensional space. Together with CSS transitions, these elements can be moved in 3D space and create a realistic effect. Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms.
The main idea is to create a circular gallery where we have an image in the center and two on the sides. Since we are using perspective, the two lateral images will appear three dimensional when we rotate them.
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Please note that this will only work in browsers that support CSS 3D transforms.
How it works
The following HTML structure is used for the gallery:
<section id="dg-container" class="dg-container"> <div class="dg-wrapper"> <a href="#"> <img src="images/1.jpg" alt="image01"> <div>http://www.colazionedamichy.it/</div> </a> <a href="#"> <!-- ... --> </a> <!-- ... --> </div> <nav> <span class="dg-prev"><</span> <span class="dg-next">></span> </nav> </section>
And this is how the gallery is initialized:
$('#dg-container').gallery();
Options
The following options are available:
current : 0, // index of current item autoplay : false, // slideshow on / off interval : 2000 // time between transitions
I hope you enjoy it!
Nice work thanks for the plugin.
This is a great tut!!! Thanks so much for sharing it Pedro.
Really nice effect when viewed in a WebKit browser, has some issues with scrollbars appearing when viewed in the latest FireFox (v10).
Iron out these FF bugs and it’s a winner!
Nice gallery, quite inspiring for a new projekt.
But It ís´n working good in in FF 10, the images flicker on action or aren´t displayed at all.
Works fine in Chrome and Safari.
Very nice… except with Firefox (v10)
Nice looking and simple effect. Thanks !
hohohoho….so amazing, beautyful \m/
I live this site so much. I can’t wait to see their next post. The work done is brilliant. keep it up
*love
Nice one, just lack of keyboard support 😉
+1 on this.
As usual .. top quality stuff.
Thank You so much.
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! 🙂
does not work correctly in Opera (last version). After the first click on the arrows, they stop working. Sorry for my English. Helps Google Translator. )))
I’ve got the same problem
Nice effect! Did some browser testing and even IE8 works nicely except for the 3d animation of course, but the main point it’s accesible. Only Opera (11.61) has a strange behavior. I only can click once on a next/previous arrow and after that it blocks… I can’t navigate the slideshow anymore. But hey… it.s an experiment, I know, and it looks awesome in Chrome 🙂
It seems that jquery.gallery.js couldn’t added ‘z-index: 999’.
I try to fix js, then I did it.
It works good at Firefox(v10)
# I changed this part…
jquery.gallery.js line: 154 ~ 158
—
this.$currentItm.css({
‘z-index’ : 999,
‘opacity’ : 1,
‘visibility’: ‘visible’
}).addClass(‘dg-center’);
—
Thack you so much ! Problem fixed in FF 🙂
Thanks for this beautiful sharing and a big red card for the browsers that doesn’t support CSS 3D transformations
Amazing, this is a great example of what can be achieved with CSS.
Only 2-3 more years till it will be usable…
This would be especially awesome if it worked with touch like iPhone and iPad.
Very nice! Thanks.
Greate
Thank you for the nice tutorial. Good job.
Good article, I’ve wrote a demo a few months ago which tries to achieve the same effect without javascript. There’s no autoplay obviously but the rest it’s pretty close imho: a pure css3 coverflow effect 🙂
Upfff ……………………. I don’t like it. I love it……………….great looking for this type of articles.
this is most beautiful 3d creation. very easly use
Amazing job!
Laggy in Firefox 10.0. When the page loads the left and right images are on top of the center image. Sometimes the left image disappears. Works great in Chrome.
On Opera it works just for one slide and then it’s not working, also laggy. “Invalid value for property: zoom”
Good!!! really really good!! Nice work!
Wow, I always adore 3D, love it.
Nice…tnx..
Amazing.
I noticed your email envelope icon link is broken.
I wanted to thank you for your tutorials. I merged your tutorial with Fotobook plugin for WordPress and I made a nice looking plugin.
I gave you credit of course.
http://socialblogsitewebdesign.com/wordpress_plugins/darkroom-facebook-photo-gallery
A quick question: Is it normal for jQuery to quit on a few tens of webkit rotations?
The above script randomly fails to rotate all the pictures (added my -1 index for the inner-shadow to render on top of the images makes the non-rotated images to dissapear)
I found out the script is susceptible to any JS error. Even the layer.eventX deprecated (jQuery?) warning prevents the foreach script to finish rotating the images.
I’d appreciate you take a look at the code.
Do you have a effective way to make a mouseleave to “wait” a few seconds based on two readings of the mouse proximity to the element?
I’ve been trying to make the mouseentered image to “figure out” whether the pointer is approaching or not so it can wait in the hovered state a second, to prevent the rotating image moving away the pointer stuttering the mounseenter-leave-enter effect, without affecting the quick hover-out reaction if the pointer is just passing-by.
It work great on my Blog, Thanks!!
I want more code……
I see this demo in chrome browser (V16) flickering in the transitions,does anyone have an idea of why does this happens?
i´ve tried this with no luck
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3461441/prevent-flicker-on-webkit-transition-of-webkit-transform
nice…is there any way to stop it from changing the weight and opacity of all the fonts on the rest of my page?
Hey great 3d effect. I always check this site and always find something that is pleasing to my eyes. i have seen some effects like this but that was 3D accordion. This is the first time i have come across gallery. Really nice, small and sweet tutorial as well.
Wahou ! Nice 3D effect ! Goog job.
Nice!
Add “overflow: hidden” for fix scroll bar bug.
Sekuline.
Que buen slider, por lo que veo facil de implementar, gracias!!
Hi Pedro
Nice post, I haven’t experimented with css transitions yet but it is defiantly something I am looking to incorporate in future design work. I have used a similar effect recently but the jquery roundabout plugin I opted for caused numerous conflict issues in other areas of the site. Time for a change I think.
This is far from being great. It does not work in neither Firefox nor Opera. It degrades gracefully (no 3D effect) in IE, though. Until it does not work in common browsers, it’s useless for real websites. Do not build a Webkit-only Web! Just DON’T!
Awesome creativity, excellent experiment of css3 and jQuery. Liked it.
Awesome job! Worked GREAT, but with a little lag in Chrome. In Firefox, was VERY buggy. Haven’t checked MSIE.
Have a problem when I add this, in IE9,8,7 it only shows one (main) image, and the nav icons move to the left? Anyone know how to fix that?
CSS 3D Transform Controls don’t work in IE yet
Hmm.. I noticed that the demo site works fine with IE9, BUT when I download the source files, I only get one image (not three). Have you found a fix? View my dev site: bocagrandeffa.org in IE and in Chrome or Firefox and you will see that it only fails in IE. I saw the reply that said: CSS 3D Transform Controls don’t work in IE yet, however if you view the demo site (http://tympanus.net/Development/3DGallery/) it works fine. I am trying to find the diff. :-/
Any ideas?
Like the effect and how it works, but it killed my FF all 3 times I tested it, there’s something you must fix there
Hi!
How can I modify it to, when you click on the picture, it will slide to front?
I hope someone can come up with a solution for that.
It is almost perfect I like the angle the side pictures are but when you click on the pictures it doesn’t slide to front which is bad.
It would be perfect if it does that.
Very nice!
Also see this jQuery plugin to create a similar gallery with lots more options.
very nice !!!!!!!!!!!1
Hope this helps someone.
The left and right images will occasionally flicker in FF 10. I narrowed this down to the styling of the text below each image. For whatever reason, FF doesn’t like the switch from no display to block display. By adding a base style using block display but making it hidden and modifying the original style, I was able to eliminate the flicker:
.dg-wrapper a div {
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
}
.dg-wrapper a.dg-center div {
visibility: visible;
}
Oh dear, Firefox doesn’t like this at all. Reboot city.
Someone try to use it in wordpress ?
Yes, but fail… and you ?
It works fine in mozilla but not in chrome…few days back in chrome it works nice but today its not..:(( help