Particle Effects for Buttons

Today we’d like to share a little effect library with you that can be used to create bursting particle effects. The idea is to desintegrate an element into particles and making it disappear (and vice versa). This effect looks really interesting on buttons, so we’ve created a little collection that showcases a bunch of different styles for the effect.

The inspiration for this idea came from Cuberto’s Hyperloop interface shot, Route Selection UI.

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The animations are powered by anime.js. Here’s an example of how you can use it:

<!-- Normal HTML element to disintegrate -->
  <button class="button">Button</button>
  
  <script src="anime.min.js"></script>
  <script src="dist/particles.min.js"></script>
  <script>
      // Initialize a new instance of Particles to disintegrate/integrate the button
      var particles = new Particles('.button');
  
      // Disintegrate the button into particles
      particles.disintegrate();
  
      // particles.integrate(); // would do the opposite
  </script>

The following options are available:

Name	Type	Default	Description
canvasPadding	Integer	150	Padding for the generated canvas that will be positioned right behind the target element. A canvasPadding = 0 will cause the canvas and the target element to have the same dimensions.
duration	Integer	1000	Duration (ms) to perform the animations of target element and particles.
easing	String or Function	easeInOutCubic	Easing function to perform the animation of target element. It will be passed directly to anime.js.
type	String	circle	Type of particle. Could be any of the following values: circle, rectangle, triangle
style	String	fill	Style of particle. Could be any of the following values: fill, stroke.
direction	String	left	Direction to start disintegrating the element. Could be any of the following values: left, right top, bottom. The opposite direction will be used to perform the integrate operation.
size	Float or Function	Random from 1 to 4	Size (px) for particles.
speed	Float or Function	Random from -2 to 2	Pixels per frame that a particle will be moved. It could be a function to set it randomly per particle (as default value).
color	String	Target’s background-color	Color used to fill the particles.
particlesAmount Coefficient	Float	3	A coefficient to calculate the amount of particles to animate. A particlesAmountCoefficient = 0 will result in 0 particles, while bigger values will increase the amount of particles.
oscillation Coefficient	Float	20	A coefficient to calculate the oscilation of particles while animating. A oscilationCoefficient = 0 will result in no oscilation (straight movements), while bigger values will increase the oscilation, resulting in a kind of randomness.
begin	Function	undefined	Execute a function at the beginning of the animation.
complete	Function	undefined	Execute a function at the end of the animation.

We hope you enjoy this and find it useful!

References and Credits

• anime.js