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I just inspected it to see how they did the animations for those. Something in javascript is updating the img src attribute at 60fps, which is an absolutely ins

• bobbylarrybobby 11mo ago
  Right, surely the icons could be SVGs, with the background orbs stored as a base64 PNG (or maybe a specular lighting filter?), with the foreground icons made to move via an updating displacement map?
  • shortrounddev2 11mo ago
    Even if they didn't want to go that route, What I've seen google do in the past is render every frame to a texture atlas, and write a CSS animation which updates the background-position property at 60 frames a second, so at least you don't have to load 150 images at a time
    • bobbylarrybobby 11mo ago
      That also sounds very reasonable