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Something very peculiar about the things this article dwells on and the things it chooses to skim. There's a lot of detail about the process of moving assets fr
by jameshart 11y ago
Something very peculiar about the things this article dwells on and the things it chooses to skim. There's a lot of detail about the process of moving assets from Illustrator into an SVG file, but the clever bits seem to be almost glossed over. It literally says, for example,
"The infamous 'goo' effect is a Gaussian blur filter whose alpha contrast is boosted right up using a ColorMatrix filter (I'm not going to go into too much detail with the goo effect as it's somewhat outside the scope of this, plus it's a bit boring)."
Wait... no, I'm interested in how the gaussian blur and the colormatrix work together! How did you figure out the parameters? What other effects could this accomplish?
But apparently that bit - the bit that makes this look like a lava lamp not just a picture - is boring?
- chrisgannon 11y agoHere's further reading on the effect. I didn't include it because this combination of effects (goo) has been around for a while now and it's boring regurgitating the same explanation over and over. http://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/03/10/creative-gooey-effects/ http://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/03/10/creative-gooey-effect...
- jameshart 11y agoWell, it was new to me :) Maybe add the link to further reading into the article, then?
- chrisgannon 11y agoYes it was my bad - I've added it now. Thanks for pointing that out.
- kevinchen 11y agoSkimmed through the article and I think it's similar to this - see the section "Making Things Stick" https://css-tricks.com/gooey-effect/ https://css-tricks.com/gooey-effect/